Fires in Southern California

Multiple massive wildifres burned in southern California during the last week of October 2003. This series of images shows the fires and the damage they caused as seen from a variety of satellites.

<SPAN style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Sans; font-size: 75%;">4-meter resolution image of just Lake Arrowhead region (818 kB JPEG)</SPAN>

In the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, the Padua, Grand Prix and Old Fires have created a broken fire line that at times has stretched out over forty miles. This view of the region around Arrowhead Lake (top right of overview image) shows a wall of smoke from the Old Fire towering over the mountains south of the lake. In places the flaming fire fronts were burning so brightly, they were visible to the Ikonos satellite from 432 miles in space. This image was captured on October 28, 2003. The spatial resolution (detail) of the large image is 4 meters per pixel.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    IKONOS/IKONOS

  • Start Date

    2003-10-28

  • Event Start Date

    2003-10-23

  • NH Image ID

    11814

  • NH Event ID

    10194

  • NH Posting Date

    2003-10-30