These images from January 8, 2025, show a true-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with fires and thermal anomalies on the left and a false-color corrected reflectance image (Bands 7-2-1) on the right. The images were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard the Aqua platform.
The Palisades Fire (lower left) and the Eaton Fire (upper right) began on January 7, 2025, and the Lidia Fire (upper center) began on January 8, 2025, and spread quickly due to the powerful Santa Ana winds. As of Thursday morning, January 9, the two largest blazes, the Palisades and Eaton fires, have not been contained and have burned 17,234 acres and 10,600 acres respectively. The Lidia fire has burned 348 acres and is 60 percent contained. Two more fires are also burning, the Hurst and Sunset fires, but are not visible in the images above.
Move the center swipe bar to the left to see the actively burning fires in red with blueish smoke emanating from the fires. Move the bar to the right to view the smoke emanating from the fires and the orange dots indicating the approximate location of fire and thermal anomalies occurring within a 1 kilometer pixel. Click the icon in the upper right corner to interactively explore this comparison image in NASA Worldview.
Visit the US and Canada Fire Map from Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) for more detailed information about the fires.
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