A natural color image of the czu lightening complex fires near santa cruz california taken on aug.
Satellite view of california fires live.
Est on october 23 2007.
The kincade fire is the largest of several blazes that were ignited amid a string of strong california windstorms leading this week to the third major fire weather event in barely 10 days.
There are two major types of current fire information.
To view the most complete information about a specific potential fire select all satellite data available.
Each satellite has unique detection and data refresh capabilities.
Using the map below you can view potential fire detection data provided by these six satellites as they monitor the state of california from space.
The first image was captured by nasa s terra satellite at 2 25 p m.
21 2020 shows the dense smoke now covering much of california.
Vast plumes of thick smoke can be seen blowing out over the pacific ocean.
Fire activity is denoted with red pixels.
These data are used to make highly accurate perimeter maps for firefighters and other emergency personnel but are generally updated only once every 12 hours.
5 of 9 satellite image 2020.
Fire perimeter and hot spot data.