The blazes have actually destroyed more than 300 houses, required more than 7,000 people to evacuate, and charred almost 17,000 hectares (66 square miles), according to news reports. Sometimes, flames neared a nuclear reactor and gas facilities, though firefighters succeeded in fending them off. Around 18,000 individuals and lots of helicopters have actually been activated to eliminate the fires.
Most forest fires in South Korea (58 percent) take place in the spring when forests tend to be the driest and greenery is primed to burn, according to research study released in Applied Sciences.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, utilizing MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.
By Adam Voiland, NASA Earth Observatory
March 8, 2022
March 5, 2022
Firefighters contended with strong winds and dry weather condition as blazes raced through seaside counties.
Amid dry weather condition and strong winds, countless firemens raced to put out fires that burned through forests in coastal South Korea in early March 2022.
In NASA satellite data, the first signs of the fires began to appear on March 3-4, 2022, in the seaside locations of Uljin and Samcheok. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite recorded the natural-color image revealed above on March 5. At the time, strong westerly winds sent smoke plumes streaming towards southern Japan. By March 7, smoke had thinned some as winds slowed and the weather turned foggy, however the satellites continued to find fire activity.