The Pioneer Fire is burning in southwestern Idaho in the Sawtooth National Forest, about 8 miles north of Idaho City. As of July 31 the fire has destroyed two structures and covered 27,417 acres. Inciweb, an interagency all-risk incident information management system that coordinates with federal, state and local agencies to manage wildfires reported it is 27 percent contained. For more information about the Pioneer Fire, visit the Inciweb page: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4866/.
This natural-color satellite image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on July 31, 2016 at 5:20 p.m. EDT (21:20 UTC). Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Rob Gutro with information from Inciweb.