wildfire

Fighting fire from the sky

Infographics / firefight, flight, Reuters, wildfire

For Reuters, Simon Scarr, Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa, and Sudev Kiyada use flight data…
Visual guide to the wildfire damage

Maps / damage, Guardian, wildfire

The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with…
Palisades fire, seen from above

Maps / Palisades, satellite imagery, wildfire

Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades…
Wind flow patterns over Los Angeles

Maps / New York Times, wildfire, wind

Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and…
Hot winds fueling the fires

Infographics / Los Angeles, Washington Post, wildfire, wind

The Washington Post illustrates how air flows from the Great Basin, over the…
Map of active wildfires in California

Maps / California, Los Angeles Times, wildfire

This California wildfires map from Los Angeles Times shows an up-to-date status in…
Maui fires timeline, a visual reconstruction of the events

Maps / Lahaina, New York Times, wildfire

Using a combination of weather reports, videos, and 911 calls, The New York…
Realistic rendering of Canada’s wildfires

Maps / Canada, Peter Atwood, wildfire

Peter Atwood used NASA data to depict the wildfires in Canada this year.…
Map of Lahaina buildings destroyed in wildfire

Maps / buildings, Lahaina, Wall Street Journal, wildfire

Most of the Maui town Lahaina was destroyed by wildfire. The Wall Street…
Smoke from Canada wildfires over the U.S.

Maps / Canada, smoke, Upshot, wildfire

Wildfires in one area means smoke and pollution travels to surrounding areas, even…
Maps of wildfire smoke pollution

Maps / New York Times, pollution, smoke, wildfire

Wildfire obviously damages the areas it comes in direct contact with, but wildfire…
Emissions from fires in the Arctic

Maps / Arctic, carbon, Reuters, wildfire

Reuters reported on the fires in the Arctic and the relatively high levels…
Sequoia tree wildfire protection

Infographics / Reuters, sequoia, trees, wildfire

For Reuters, Travis Hartman, Ally J. Levine, and Anurag Rao describe the measures…
Wildfires and floods, a geographic before and after

Maps / Gordon Logie, satellite imagery, wildfire

In 2021, a large portion of North America was stuck in a heat…
Visual guide for protecting your home from wildfire

Infographics / 3-d, Washington Post, wildfire

Aaron Steckelberg and Tik Root for The Washington Post provide a visual guide…
Tracking wildfires in the west

Maps / New York Times, tracker, wildfire

Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times…
Fires in the west and climate change

Maps / climate change, scrollytelling, Washington Post, wildfire

This is some advanced mapping and scrollytelling from the Washington Post. The piece…
More fire weather days coming

Maps / California, climate change, ProPublica, wildfire

It’s been smoky this season. Based on research from Michael Goss et al.,…
Millions of people experienced unhealthy air in 2020

Statistical Visualization / air quality, NPR, wildfire

NPR estimated how many people have experienced unhealthy air this year, largely in…
Air Quality Mapped Over Time

Data Underload / air quality, wildfire

With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.

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