Sadly this is only for California.<p>I was looking at worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov during the BC wildfires[0] last summer.<p>Here's a particularly bad day in September <a href="https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_All,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines(hidden)&t=2017-09-06&z=3&v=-143.48275090126558,26.87028210436393,-90.31336811621935,60.10114634501782&ab=off&as=2017-09-06&ae=2017-09-13&av=3&al=true" rel="nofollow">https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_S...</a><p>Here's today <a href="https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_All,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines(hidden)" rel="nofollow">https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_S...</a><p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfires" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_wildfire...</a>
Slightly off topic - a friend from England opined that Europe has a much lower incidence of natural calamities compared to the US. Fewer earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, droughts,...
Is this true and why?