Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago

---

A series of recent wildfires ignited or spread this past week as warm, dry, and windy conditions—a rarity for the rainy Pacific Northwest—have swept across Washington, bringing some of the driest October weather conditions to the region in decades.

Learn more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/news/wildfires-erupt-the-pacific-northwest
*
*
Credits:
NOAA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
CIRA

Music:
“Wandering Streams” by Kurt Oldman [BMI];Killer Tracks; Universal Production Music