A wildfire in Butte County, California, is spreading rapidly through the region. Climatologist Daniel Swain, using satellite imagery, has shown that it’s effortlessly burning through the town of Paradise, where thousands of buildings have been destroyed. Incredible #GOES16 satellite imagery of extremely dangerous, fast-moving wildfire in wildland-urban interface currently burning through #Paradise, California at an estimated 80 acres *per minute. The largest wildfire in Californian history, the Mendocino Complex – consisting of two individual fires – consumed 459,123 acres before it was contained, per Earther. The Camp Fire’s violence will only be truly revealed post-mortum.

Source: Forbes November 09, 2018 02:28 UTC