California fires watched from space

In November 2018 California experienced one of the fiercest fires to ever plague its forests. The fire, nicknamed the Camp Fire, took over an astounding 140,000 acres

(218 square miles) after just eight days. This was one of the deadliest and most destructive fires in Californian history and was eventually subsided on 25 November 2018.

NASA was able to observe the blaze from above using the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, creating the naturalcolour image shown here.

Any active fires are shown as red dots within the image; these were detected using thermal bands.