File:The August Complex Wildfire - California.jpg
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English: The August Complex is a massive wildfire burning Northern California. It originated as 38 individual fires started by lightning strikes on 16 August 2020 merged. As of 20 September 2020, the burnt area stood at 832,891 acres (337,058 ha or 3,370 km2) and, due its massive extension, it is listed as both the single-largest wildfire and the largest fire complex in California since record-keeping began. This image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on19 September shows the burn scar and a fronts still active of the August Complex wildfire. Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite is a two-spacecraft satellite mission useful to deliver strategic data to improve knowledge about wildfires and climate change. |
Date | 20 September 2020 (upload date) |
Source | The August Complex Wildfire - California |
Author | European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery |
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Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
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