d050·dataset

Where fires are burning right now

FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System)

LANCE/FIRMS (cross-DAAC, NASA Goddard hosted) FIRMS cloud-native 1 km (MODIS) / 375 m (VIIRS) 3-hourly NRT CSVGeoJSONWMS landfireemergency-response

Near-real-time active-fire detections. Most-visited NASA site during July 2024 California wildfires. Operational emergency response.

FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System)

Near-real-time active-fire detections. Most-visited NASA site during July 2024 California wildfires. Operational emergency response.

Access

Portal: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/
REST API: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/

Gotchas

NRT only; for analysis-grade reprocessed product use MCD64A1 burned-area
Hot-spot != confirmed fire; check confidence levels
MODIS + VIIRS combined feed

Other datasets: d006

Sources

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

The access details, code, and sources below are kept in the original English for technical accuracy.

Quick access (cloud-direct)

firms_access.py

import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="FIRMS_*",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream from LANCE/FIRMS (cross-DAAC, NASA Goddard hosted)

Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.

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