DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z March 26, 2026
SMOKE: Southeastern United States... Agricultural burns persisted this evening in the southeaster United States. Fires produced many light-to-heavy density smoke plumes across the region from eastern Oklahoma and Texas to Georgia and the Carolinas. Individual plumes expanded to the north and drifted east towards the mid-Atlantic and merged into a larger area of light-to-moderate smoke that covered the southeast and northern Gulf of America. Nebraska... The Grant County wildfire in west-central Nebraska produced a large, moderate density plume that drifted southwest over Colorado. Western United States... Multiple fires in southeastern Washington State produced light density smoke plumes that moved east toward Idaho. Isolated light-to-moderate smoke plumes were also observed in northern California, central Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Mexico/Central America... Smoke from fire activity, remnant smoke from previous days, and aerosol emissions from gas flaring and other industrial activities in central and southern Mexico spread into layer of light density smoke that expanded from the western coast over the Pacific and across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec along the Gulf Coast. Moderate density smoke gathered over the Isthmus. Mills 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