DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1440Z August 29, 2025
SMOKE: Central-Northern Canada/Midwestern CONUS... Wildfires in the Northwest Territories continued to burn this morning, emitting a large area of light-to-heavy density smoke covering much of Central and Northern Canada, and extending into Kentucky and West Virginia through the Midwestern CONUS. Within this area, a region of moderate-to-high density smoke covered much of the Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as it extended east through the Hudson Bay. Western CONUS... Wildfires in northern and central California are observed producing light-to-heavy density smoke with moderate-to-heavy density smoke concentrated near the respective fire sources. The wildfire in west-central Oregon was also seen producing light-to-heavy density smoke with moderate-to-heavy density smoke traveling east across Oregon towards western Idaho. Lighter density smoke from these wildfires dispersed east towards Idaho and southwestern Nevada, north towards eastern Washington State, and south towards southern California and the Pacific Coast. GL THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG:http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov