Bush Fire Scorches Lands Near Phoenix, Arizona

On the afternoon of June 13, 2020, a vehicle fire near the intersection of Bush Highway and State Route 87 ignited the brush and grass nearby. By June 16, nearly 65,000 acres northeast of Phoenix, Arizona, had burned, making the Bush Fire the largest in the state this year and the largest in the United States, right now. This satellite image shows the Bush Fire burn scar and some active fire fronts as they appeared on June 14, 2020. The images were acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. NASA/UPI