DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1510Z July 16, 2025
SMOKE: Alaska/Canada/Atlantic Ocean... Wildfires continued to burn across northeastern Alaska and northwestern to central Canada, causing widespread smoke to disperse eastward across south Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes region into the northern Atlantic. Denser smoke concentrated around the Northwest Territories, central Saskatchewan, and central Manitoba. British Columbia/Western United States... Wildfires in southern British Columbia generated smoke that drifted south over central Washington. Wildfires in central Oregon and northern California generated smoke that drifted south over Oregon and east over the borders between Oregon, California, and Nevada. Wildfires in southern Nevada, northern Arizona, southern Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico generated a light-density smoke cloud that moved northeastward to merge with the larger smoke mass from Canada. Mexico... An area of light density smoke was observed flowing from fires along the Yucatan north along the Gulf of America. Ferrante THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG:http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov