According to the real-time information available from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE) and the data from verified news sources – the deadly 2020 California wildfires have burned over 1 million acres. The damages are four times more from the entire 2019, which was at 259,823 acres.

Maxar Technologies, a leading high-resolution satellite imagery provider and a member of WGIC, has released the satellite imagery. Here are the images from that gallery of the LNU, CZU, and SCU Lightning Complex wildfires, as well as the Carmel and River wildfires. 

The Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) data helps us to see through smoke showing details on the ground, detecting fire lines and hot spots, as well as natural color satellite imagery. At 3.7m resolution, DigitalGlobe SWIR imagery provides 16 times the spatial information content compared to SWIR data available from ASTER and Landsat 8 satellites.