Pacific Northwest Wildfires Satellite Imagery

A large fire as defined by the national wildland coordinating group is any wildland fire in timber 100 acres or greater and 300 acres or greater in grasslands rangelands or has an incident management team assigned to it.

Pacific northwest wildfires satellite imagery.

Northwest fuels and fire behavior advisories. Ir channels on the instrument during parts of the night leading to partial loss of abi imagery. This type of cloud feature was originally identified in tiros v imagery over the pacific ocean in 1962 and was featured in the first monthly weather review picture of the month series in january. Hot dry conditions in the summertime make wildfires likely to plague the pacific northwest and california.

Striking satellite imagery shows how the fires are. In satellite imagery they look like distinct leaf like or spokes on a wheel patterns that stand out from the rest of the low lying cloud field. 300 x 300 px jpg 87 kb. Goes west sector view.

No current fuels and fire behavior advisories for the northwest current northwest fire situation daily updates. Large fire map displays active large fire incidents within oregon and. Pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s. Wildfires rage across pacific northwest.

An affiliation of internet based private weather stations in washington oregon idaho and montana eurytopic monaural. Large fire information summary detailed description including resources assigned current conditions etc. West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean. Pacific northwest images updated every 5 minutes.

While derived from operational satellites the data products and imagery available on this website are intended for informational purposes only. Truckers abandon rigs on i 5 smoke drifts to new mexico. Imagery and loops on this site are intended for informational purposes only they are not considered operational. The northwest fire location map displays active fire incidents within oregon and washington.

The suomi npp satellite s visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of the pacific northwest on september 05 2017. This web site should not be used to support operational observation forecasting emergency or disaster mitigation operations either public or private.