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Area Burned in Severe Northwest Territory Wildfires Doubles in Just One Day
Area Burned in Severe Northwest Territory Wildfires Doubles in Just One Day
Lots of fires!
In just one day, an area of land covering 1,860 square miles of the Northwest Territory has burned. That’s a zone 50 percent larger than the entire state of Rhode Island going up in smoke over just one 24 hour period. And as you can see from the GOES satellite animation below, the volume of smoke being produced by fires burning in a permafrost thaw region is quite extreme:
Area Burned in Severe Northwest Territory Wildfires Doubles in Just One Day
Lots of fires!