NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll
NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

Over the last decade, wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone pollution across much of the contiguous United States, creating unhealthy air far from active flames.

Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island
Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island

A wildland fire charred grassland, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral across one-third of the island, the second largest of the Channel Islands.

NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety
NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers with important data on what happens beneath the canopy during a fire. In April, researchers and […]

Fires Rage in Georgia
Fires Rage in Georgia

Firefighters are battling two destructive blazes in the southern part of the state as drought grips the U.S. Southeast.

Smoke Shrouds Northern Thailand
Smoke Shrouds Northern Thailand

Seasonal fires have darkened skies over Southeast Asia.

New NASA Views of Earth, From (S)PACE
New NASA Views of Earth, From (S)PACE

NASA has a fleet of satellites in orbit, gathering data around the clock, to explore unique views of our home planet’s ocean, atmosphere, and land surfaces.

Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands
Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands

Dry, warm, and windy conditions across the U.S. Great Plains led to extreme fire activity in March 2026.

Smoke Rises Over Big Cypress National Preserve
Smoke Rises Over Big Cypress National Preserve

The National fire has burned tens of thousands of acres within the Florida preserve, fueled by vegetation dried by prolonged drought and killed by recent frost.

Fires Erupt in South-Central Chile 
Fires Erupt in South-Central Chile 

Tens of thousands of people fled to safety as blazes spread throughout the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions.

Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime
Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime

An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.