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Progression of California’s Rim Fire

At 369 square miles in size, the Rim Fire is the largest in the United States in 2013.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the USGS Earth Explorer and fire extent data from InciWeb Thanks to Betsy Mason of the Wired Map Lab for links to data sources.

Published September 4, 2013
Data acquired August 19 - September 2, 2013

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI