NASA Maps Show California’s Lighting Complex Fires

The most up-to-date way to track the flames

J. Bradley Chen
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Published in
7 min readAug 21, 2020

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Animated gif showing red areas (representing fires) growing and spreading near the coast south of San Jose.
August 16–21, 2020. Credit: NASA FIRMS. More info below.

As dozens of fires continue to blaze across Northern California, I’m grateful for helpful maps and materials posted to Twitter and 95033talk to give insight into where the flames are heading. But I wanted more detailed maps, so I’m sharing this map series of the CZU Lightning Complex Fires generated using…

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