NASA Tracks the Arizona Bush Fire

Released Friday, June 26, 2020

ID: 13652

- Produced by:
- Katie Jepson

Music: "Solar Winds" by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS] courtesy of Universal Production Music.

On the afternoon of June 13, 2020, a vehicle fire near the intersection of Bush Highway and State Route 87 ignited the brush and grass nearby. As of June 25, 2020, the Bush Fire is one of the five largest fires in Arizona's history.

NASA’s satellite instruments are often the first to detect wildfires burning in remote regions, and the locations of new fires are sent directly to land managers worldwide within hours of the satellite overpass. Together, NASA instruments detect actively burning fires, track the transport of smoke from fires, provide information for fire management, and map the extent of changes to ecosystems, based on the extent and severity of burn scars. NASA has a fleet of Earth-observing instruments, many of which contribute to our understanding of fire in the Earth system.

For More Information

See https://www.nasa.gov/fires

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Scientist
- Amber Soja (NASA/LaRC)
Producer
- Katie Jepson (USRA)
Visualizers
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)