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Record Wildfire in Texas.
Image of the week.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire
started about one mile north of Stinnett, Texas, on February 26th, 2024.
Three days later, the fire had consumed over 1 million acres.
With a total area of 1654mi²,
it became the largest fire on record in Texas.
That's larger than New York's Long Island.
A series of false color images
reveal the land cover before, during, and after the fire.
February 24th.
Two days before the fire.
March 3rd, six days after
March 19th, 22 days after ignition and three days after containment.
Additional imagery through April
and May show the burn scar fading as the region turns green.
A mathematical formula known as Normalized Burn Ratio uses
Landsat’s infrared bands to illustrate burn severity over the same dates.
Dark orange areas indicate the highest severity.
Communities and scientists
rely on Landsat data to track and study wildfires around the world.
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