The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image of the Camp Fire on November 12, 2018. The fire started on November 8 and has become the deadliest in California history. More than 5,000 firefighters were battling the blaze, which was 30 percent contained as of November 13, 2018.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Caption by Kasha Patel.