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August Fires Leave Vast Burn Scars in California

The LNU and SCU Lightning Complex fires—the second and third largest fires in state history—have burned more than 700,000 acres of land.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story August Fires Leave Vast Burn Scars in California.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published August 27, 2020
Data acquired August 26, 2020