Imagery
Live satellite views of the fire area. Every image below is captured by a government satellite and links to the source at full resolution.
These are real satellite images, not illustrations. The artwork on the home page is illustrative; nothing here is.
GOES-18 GeoColor — Pacific Northwest
True-colour daytime view, infrared at night. Smoke plumes are visible as grey-brown streaks. Refreshes about every 10 minutes.
GOES-18 Fire Temperature — Pacific Northwest
A band combination tuned to heat rather than light, so actively burning fire fronts show through smoke.
GOES-18 Sandwich — Pacific Northwest
Visible detail blended with infrared cloud-top temperature, useful for spotting pyrocumulus over a fire.
NASA VIIRS true colour — fire area
Higher-resolution daily overpass, framed on Spokane and Stevens Counties.
NASA VIIRS thermal anomalies — fire area
375-metre heat detections in red, over the same day's satellite imagery. Each mark is a pixel the satellite measured as anomalously hot.