Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
As wildfires continue to rage in North America, the Dixie Fire became the second largest fire in California history. The fire has burned more than half a million acres, filling the air as far as Denver and Salt Lake City with smoke. And that’s just one of 108 large fires that have burned more than 2.4 million acres in 15 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Meanwhile, by August 6, 2021, thick smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning in Siberia had reached parts of Mongolia, western Greenland, and, for the first time in recorded history—the North Pole.
Learn more by reading about this week's Earth From Orbit on our site: nesdis.noaa.gov/fires-rage-across-globe
Credit:
NOAA
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
CIRA
Additional imagery from Meteosat-8/EUMETSAT
Music:
“Revealing the Truth,” by Martin Tillman [BMI] & Matteo Pagamici [SUISA]; Atmosphere; Universal Production Music
As wildfires continue to rage in North America, the Dixie Fire became the second largest fire in California history. The fire has burned more than half a million acres, filling the air as far as Denver and Salt Lake City with smoke. And that’s just one of 108 large fires that have burned more than 2.4 million acres in 15 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Meanwhile, by August 6, 2021, thick smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning in Siberia had reached parts of Mongolia, western Greenland, and, for the first time in recorded history—the North Pole.
Learn more by reading about this week's Earth From Orbit on our site: nesdis.noaa.gov/fires-rage-across-globe
Credit:
NOAA
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
CIRA
Additional imagery from Meteosat-8/EUMETSAT
Music:
“Revealing the Truth,” by Martin Tillman [BMI] & Matteo Pagamici [SUISA]; Atmosphere; Universal Production Music
