November 19, 2022 - Fires at Neah Bay, Washington
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In the early morning hours of November 17, 2022, residents living near
Hobuck Lake in Neah Bay, Washington reported seeing embers floating on
the wind. The smoking ash turned out to be the result of three
individual fires that ignited in Neah Bay that morning. Driven by
strong winds, the fires quickly burnt more than 140 acres and caused
evacuation of about 100 people, according to the Peninsula Daily News.
Both the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the
United States Coast Guard responded to aid firefighting.
On November 18, the fires had been sufficiently contained to permit
residents to return to their homes. The Cape Fire, which was the
largest and the fastest-growing in the outbreak, had burnt 100 acres
but had been reduced to 60 acres as of 11:00 a.m. local time. The
smallest fire, the Johnny Fire, had been quenched by the time it
reached two acres. The first fire discovered, called the Hobuck Lake
Fire, initially charged toward a residential area, but ended up burning
into nearby wetlands and was quenched. The cause of the fires is not
known.
On November 18, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of
the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Red hot spots mark areas where the
thermal bands on the MODIS instrument detected high temperatures and
indicate actively burning fire. A long plume of gray smoke rises from
the fires and is being carried on strong wind more than 155 miles (250
km) westward over the Pacific Ocean.
Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 11/17/2022
Resolutions: 1km (85.1 KB), 500m (295.1 KB), 250m (930.8
KB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-11-19
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