Fires last 24 Hours

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Suggested citation

System, Wilfrid Schroeder (Land Atmosphere Near Real-Time Capability for EOS Fire Information for Resource Management). 2016. “VIIRS Active Fire Locations 375m FIRMS V001 NRT.” NASA Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS Fire Information for Resource Management System. https://doi.org/10.5067/firms/viirs/vnp14imgt.nrt.001.

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Licence

We acknowledge the use of data and imagery from LANCE FIRMS operated by the NASA/GSFC/Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) with funding provided by NASA/HQ.

Date or time period of observation

2021

Frequency of update

Near Real Time

Geographic coverage

Global

Cautions

NASA considers current fire data to have good enough quality for fire management applications and scientific studies but cautions users to be aware of data quality limitations associated with archived data. The VIIRS active fire algorithm undergoes routine quality control to be refined. Not all fires are detected. There are several reasons why VIIRS may not have detected a certain fire. The fire may have started and ended between satellite overpasses. The fire may have been too small or too cool to be detected in the 375 m pixel. Cloud cover, heavy smoke, or tree canopy may completely obscure a fire. It is not recommended to use active fire locations to estimate burned area due to spatial and temporal sampling issues. Each fire alert has a confidence value of low, nominal, or high to help users gauge the quality of detection.