Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.