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Dozens of forest fires (marked with red dots) were burning in eastern Russia on August 17, 2002. Thick smoke blankets the Central Siberian Plateau near the Lena River and the city of Yakutsk in this true-color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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Across the northeastern Siberian tundra, summer greens shift to vibrant reds, yellows, and browns as temperatures drop and days shorten.
Smoke filled river valleys in northeastern Washington and parts of British Columbia.
The Aude fire rapidly burned around 16,000 hectares in August 2025, becoming the country’s largest fire since 1949.
