Active Fires Worldwide

Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.

Active fires worldwide. 2012 in order to identify all active fires at night. The nasa earth data fire map accumulates the locations of fires detected by moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis on board the terra and aqua satellites over a 10 day period. Fire is a recurring part of nature. Each colored dot indicates a location where modis detected at least one fire during the compositing period.

Fires like the 100 277 hectare lutz creek fire in british columbia in august 2018 and the camp fire in california in november 2018 which burned more than 142 000 acres exact a costly. White pixels show the high end of. Explore the state of forests worldwide by analyzing tree cover change on gfw s interactive global forest map using satellite data. The fire maps show the locations of actively burning fires around the world on a monthly basis based on observations from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer on nasa s terra satellite.

Users can subscribe to email alerts bases on their area. Color ranges from red where the fire count is low to yellow where number of. Each year forest fires consume millions of acres of land destroying thousands of homes and properties in the western united states and around the world. Most fires worldwide are started by humans sometimes accidentally and sometimes on purpose.

The nearly 70 active wildfires raging along the west coast have produced the worst air quality on the planet. Portland seattle and san francisco were the top three worst according to iq air as. Using its two dedicated fire channels the sentinel 3 world fire atlas uses a simplified operational version derived from wooster et al. Learn about deforestation rates and other land use practices forest fires forest communities biodiversity and much more.

Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface. Wildfires can be caused by lightning striking a forest canopy or in a few isolated cases by lava or hot rocks ejected from erupting volcanoes.