Wildfire smoke from California is so extreme that it's reached the East Coast - here's what it looks like from space

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the fires last week.

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Cruising over 250 miles above the Earth gives astronauts a unique perspective on the fires.

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In this image, you can see the smoke from the fires north of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Prevailing winds and air flow over the Northern Hemisphere push the smoke eastward.

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Source: Mashable

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It's a problem that's only set to get worse. Twelve of the fifteen largest fires in California's history have occurred since 2000, a trend spurred on by climate change.

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Source: Business Insider

The devastation caused by the fires is even more apparent in infrafred. Here, you can see the vast swaths of burned vegetation underneath plumes of smoke from the Mendocino Complex Fire.

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The Mendocino Complex Fire is actually made up of two smaller blazes, the Ranch Fire and the River Fire. Both have burned through acres of forest, as seen below.

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You can see how the smoke moves eastward from the fires in this map powered by WX Shift, a weather forecasting service.

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Check out the map here.