But satellite imagery from San Francisco-based Planet Labs provides a glimpse at how much has burned already. These photos may look strange. That’s because they are what’s known as false-color images.

Satellite photos released via Maxar’s Open Data Program show the destruction wrought by the Palisades fire, which has charred more than 23,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 5,000 ...

The scale of flooding across California in the wake of several intense atmospheric river storms has been captured by NASA satellites. The images show California on January 15 before the major ...