West Coast Wildfires Visible From Almost 1 Million Miles Away As Smoke Spreads Over 4,000 Miles

Wildfires are currently raging across hundreds of thousands of acres of the western United States, from Washington state down to California. And the blazes are pumping huge plumes of smoke into the atmosphere that extend across a distance of over 4,000 miles.

Data and imagery collected by satellites—such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Deep Space Climate Observatory, orbiting nearly a million miles above the Earth—reveals, not surprisingly, that particularly dense areas of wildfire smoke are engulfing all of the west coast states.

But two long bands of smoke from these fires stretch much further inland, reaching as far east as the Great Lakes region—located roughly 2,500 miles away from the west coast—with significant concentrations hovering above several inland states, including Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in the northwest; and Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in the south of the country.

In addition, smoke from the fires has travelled across the northern border, far into the western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as a chunk of northwestern Mexico, including Baja California.

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