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Satellite image of California wildfires

Nov 2008 — If you found yourself here searching for images of the November 2008 wildfires in the Santa Barbara area, check out these maps. – I just saw this image over at geology.com/news and had to post it (original source from Earth Observatory website). There are literally hundreds of fires burning at once. Although there are no fires […]

Nov 2008 -- If you found yourself here searching for images of the November 2008 wildfires in the Santa Barbara area, check out these maps.

I just saw this image over at geology.com/news and had to post it (original source from Earth Observatory website).

There are literally hundreds of fires burning at once. Although there are no fires directly threatening where I live, we woke up smelling smoke this morning.

The next image below, zooms in a bit.

Read more about the fires here.

UPDATE: Also see this GoogleMaps versionof the current fires (again, as seen on geology.com/news).

UPDATE2: EarthObservatory has updated satellite images here.

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