Smoke Streams from Fires in Madeira

Heat and wind gusts helped the blazes spread through over 5,700 hectares of forest.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Smoke Streams from Fires in Madeira.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published August 20, 2024
Data acquired August 17, 2024