Fire Emissions (CAMS-GFAS)

Global burned area polygons derived from MODIS satellite imagery, providing information on spatial and temporal attributes of areas affected by fires. Fires are mapped using a semi-automatic procedure. Provided as GeoJSON. Note: the dates reported as Start date and Last update may not correspond to the date of ignition and extinction of the fire.

This Collection provides Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level-2 Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products containing data on fires detected over land and ocean.

The fire danger forecast provides daily fire danger indices. The continuous raster GeoTIFFs in this dataset are from the ECMWF (~8 km) and NASA Geos-5 (~28 km) models. The Fire Weather Index (FWI) is computed from the ECMWF and NASA Geos-5 models. The FWI is mapped in 6 classes: low, medium, high, very high, extreme and very extreme. The "Very Extreme" class was introduced in June 2021 to discriminate against extensive areas initially classified at "Extreme" in the Mediterranean region during summer months, and includes areas with FWI values above 70.

This Collection provides Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level-2 Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products containing data on fires detected over land and ocean.

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Fires consists of estimates of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from biomass burning in a range of vegetation types and from fires in organic soils.

The daily NOAA-21 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire (VJ214A1) Version 2 data product provides daily information about active fires and other thermal anomalies. The VJ214A1 data product is a global, 1 kilometer (km) gridded composite of fire pixels detected from VIIRS 750 meter (m) bands over a daily (24-hour) period. The VJ214 data products are designed after the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies/Fire product suite. The VJ214A1 product provides a total of four Science Dataset (SDS) variables for the confidence of fire, maximum fire radiative power (FRP), quality assessment (QA), and position of fire within scan. Each data product file is provided in HDF-EOS5 format. A low resolution browse is also provided showing the fire mask variable with a color map applied in JPEG format. Known Issues * For complete information about known issues please refer to the MODIS/VIIRS Land Quality Assessment website.