#California wildfires leave ‘extensive’ burn scars
“#California wildfires leave ‘extensive’ burn scars”
September 1, 2020 | 1:51pm
Burn scars from the two largest blazes in what fire managers are calling the August Lightning Siege of 2020, when lightning strikes ignited hundreds of wildfires across Northern California. The images were acquired on August 26 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Red marks depict “fire detections,” or pixels in which the sensor and a computer algorithm indicated there was active fire. The false-color image uses a combination of visible and infrared light (MODIS bands 7,2,1) to better show the burn scars through the smoke. Burned vegetation appears brown and unburned vegetation appears bright green.
NASA
Cal Fire said Monday that the LNU Lightning Complex fires that have burned 375,209 acres are now 63 percent contained, while the SCU Lightning Complex fires that have scorched 383,157 acres are 60 percent contained.
The fires burning in rugged hills north of San Francisco have destroyed more than 1,200 homes and other structures and killed five people since igniting two weeks ago.
Imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite shows burn scars from the two largest blazes in the state.
The red marks depict “fire detections,” or pixels in which the sensor and a computer algorithm indicated there was active fire, according to NASA.
In other imagery, burned vegetation appears brown while unburned vegetation still shows as bright green.
After the lightning storms sparked the blazes, more than 1 million acres have burned and seven deaths statewide have been attributed to the blazes.
The LNU Lightning Complex near Santa Rosa and the SCU Lightning Complex near San Jose have grown to become the second and third largest fires by acreage in state history.
Nearly 2,800 firefighters are battling the blazes in the northern part of the state. They will face a return of hot, dry weather, which could make conditions worse after containment increased.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a fire weather watch for exposed slopes and ridges in interior Del Norte County and the far northeastern end of Humboldt County starting at 5 pm Sunday and through 11 am Monday.
“Fuel conditions are near or exceeding critical thresholds over much of our area,” the weather service said in a statement.
Wildfire smoke is also forecast to continue impacting air quality in the northern part of the state.
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