Dry autumn conditions and high winds spurred numerous wildland fires in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia in November 2022.
Dry autumn conditions and high winds spurred numerous wildland fires in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia in November 2022.
Smoke from the fires is visible in this natural color image, acquired on November 9, 2022, with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
In Kentucky, more than 50 fires were actively burning across the state as of November 10; of those, 20 were uncontained. Many of the fires were in the eastern part of the state, causing air quality to plummet to unhealthy levels in some towns and cities. In Estill County, a state of emergency was declared on November 8 as fires threatened infrastructure and access to roads.
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