--- ---  # See What the Raging Pacific Northwest Fires Look Like From Space by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jul 19, 2014 7:34 PM UTC  NASA by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jul 19, 2014 7:34 PM UTC Wildfires across the Pacific Northwest have been blazing since Monday and have scorched large areas of forest as a result of hot, dry weather in Oregon and Washington. A total of 25 large, uncontained wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres, with the single largest affected region in eastern Oregon’s Malheur County where about 369,000 acres of land has been burned. Incredibly, you can see smoke rising above the region from outer space. Reid Wiseman, an astronaut on the International Space Station, [posted](https://twitter.com/astro%5Freid/status/490529709373935616) this photo on his Twitter feed. PHOTO: Pacific Northwest Fires Seen From Sapce ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3007773/pacific-northwest-fires-space-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3007773/pacific-northwest-fires-space-photo/"},"headline":"See What the Raging Pacific Northwest Fires Look Like From Space","datePublished":"2014-07-19T19:34:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:14:46.612Z","description":"In a photo taken from the International Space Station, smoke blankets a large swath of the western United States","url":"https://time.com/3007773/pacific-northwest-fires-space-photo/","keywords":["Space","Washington","international space station","oregon","Natural Disasters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd6fa40442daee1b/69869c6ce53aba340c4d3a6a/bs62k6qcaaa0exh.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd6fa40442daee1b/69869c6ce53aba340c4d3a6a/bs62k6qcaaa0exh.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pacific Northwest Wildfire from International Space Station","caption":"","creditText":"NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3007773/pacific-northwest-fires-space-photo/","name":"See What the Raging Pacific Northwest Fires Look Like From Space"}}]}] ```