World Wildfires Map

World Wildfires Map. 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 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

Learn about deforestation rates and other land use practices, forest fires, forest communities, biodiversity and much more. Each colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during the compositing period

Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface Interactive real-time wildfire map for the United States, including California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and others

. So in near real-time, decision-makers have critical information for saving. These maps show the locations of actively burning fires around the world, detected by instruments aboard NASA satellites.

. Color ranges from red where the fire count is low to yellow where number of fires is large. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface