Worldwide Fires

Learn about deforestation rates and other land use practices forest fires forest communities biodiversity and much more.

Worldwide fires. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. The colors are based on a count of the number not size of fires observed within a 1 000 square kilometer area. With jonah hauer king julia brown helen hunt sean bean. 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.

There have been more fires alerts around the world this year than last year spelling dire consequences for health biodiversity and the economy and human actions are mostly to blame. 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. Users can subscribe to email alerts bases on their area. Created by peter bowker.

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. Explore the relationship between forests and fires the effect of climate change on wildfires and how protection against deforestation can help prevent forest fires. This fires video shows how nasa is collecting data to help firefighters fight the blazes that continue to break out across the globe. Explore the state of forests worldwide by analyzing tree cover change on gfw s interactive global forest map using satellite data.

It also destroyed at least 2 000 structures. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface. Wwii drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war.