NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat 8 satellite data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Edited from story by Kasha Patel.
On November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire erupted 140 kilometers (90 miles) north of Sacramento, California. By morning on November 9, the fire had consumed 70,000 acres of land and was only 5 percent contained. Strong winds fanned the flames and carried burning vegetation downwind. More than two thousand personnel were sent to fight the fire. By the time it was over, the Camp Fire had become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history and the world’s most expensive natural disaster in terms of insured losses