Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.
California fires satellite map.
Hot spot data uses satellite detection to identify areas of high temperature.
Latest updates on san francisco bay area fires and wildfires burning across northern california and evacuation orders.
Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.
The data is provided by calfire.
7 2020 image of the aerosols released from the wildfires in california.
Interactive map showing acres burned and containment of fires including glass.
There are six fire detection satellite platforms used for our map.
The omps ozone mapper and profiler suite on the suomi npp satellite provided this sept.
Fire origins mark the fire fighter s best guess of where the fire started.
The data they provide is for california only.
Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume.
This map contains four different types of data.
How to use this map.
The aerosols have traveled east.
This map created by cal fire provides general locations of major fires burning in california.
The fires locations are approximates.
Goes 16 goes 17 modis and viiirs.
Goes 16 and goes 17 the goes 16 and 17 satellites are in a geostationary orbit meaning they rotate with the earth and always view the same area of earth s surface.