Smoke plumes from wildfires burning throughout the Pacific Northwest are circled in this image acquired by NASA's Terra satellite on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Click to see detail in a larger, high-resolution image. (Source: NASA) | Updated 7/19/14, 10 a.m. MDT: see new image below | Ignited by lightning strikes on hot and tinder dry forests, more than a dozen large wildfires are raging throughout the Pacific Northwest of the United States and up into British Columbia.
Click for interactive map. In Oregon and Washington alone, more than 310,000 acres were ablaze as of yesterday (July 17), according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center. That's an area more than twice the size of the city of Chicago. For an interactive map of the wildfires, click on the thumbnail at right. The image at the top of the post, acquired by NASA's Aqua satellite yesterday, provides a broad geographic overview of ...
