EARTH / FIRE

Earth's thermal detections

From Africa and South America to North America and Asia: explore global thermal anomalies through daily distributions and fire radiative power.

2026-09-14〜2026-09-19 UTC
Global / VIIRS 375 m / daily

Detections on this day75,135pointsGlobal / nominal & high confidence / daily detections

Fire radiative power MW · Linear scale

01020and above

Points have a fixed size. Color shows fire radiative power.

20 MWand above use the maximum color. Source values are unchanged.
Detections at the color ceiling:6,275 points

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Relief shading is derived from elevation and water depth. More detail loads as you zoom in. State borders and city names appear at readable scales.

Basemap sources & guide

NOAA ETOPO 2022 ↗: Elevation and depth at 60 arc-seconds. Contour intervals change with zoom: 2,000 / 1,000 / 500 / 200 m. Seafloor relief includes depth contours. Terrain shading is enhanced while data shading stays subtle. Elevations are not extruded in 3D.

Natural Earth 1:10m ↗: Coastlines, administrative boundaries and place names. Borders follow the source's de facto representation; disputed or undetermined boundaries are dashed. Place names follow the selected language where available.

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Detections switch by day. Points are not moved through interpolation.

FIRE / Daily detections

Follow Earth's activity through points of heat.

Daily thermal detections around the world. Color shows fire radiative power, revealing concentrations of stronger heat.

Start exploring

Start with the globe, then zoom into Africa, South America or Asia. Select a detection for its time and intensity.

What this visualization shows

Points are not fire counts or burned area. No detection does not mean no fire.

How to read this map

Points are global thermal anomaly detections, including non-wildfire heat sources and repeated detections of the same fire. Not fire counts or burned area.

Only nominal and high confidence. Incomplete first and last UTC days are excluded.

Linear color scale: 0–20 MW. Higher values use the maximum color while readouts preserve original FRP. Markers have fixed screen size, not fire area.

A fixed-period near-real-time product. Clouds and satellite overpass timing may cause missed detections. Areas without detections may still have fires.

Point positions are not interpolated across days.

Sources & this visualization

NASA LANCE FIRMS, S-NPP VIIRS 375 m Active Fire / Thermal Anomalies, Collection 2 NRT. Canada, Sep 13–18, 2026. Accessed 2026-09-20.

Made with Natural Earth (v5.1.2; tiled basemap 1:10m, archived releases 1:50m).

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2022): ETOPO 2022 15 Arc-Second Global Relief Model. doi:10.25921/fd45-gt74. Accessed 2026-09-20; 60 arc-second ice-surface product; new multiresolution basemap tiles use the 60 arc-second source, archived releases use 4 arc-minute sampling.

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Web rendering & enhancement settings ↗

SORAH Design System 1.6.0 / Foundations 6.3.0. Phenomenon palette: Earth Language 1.0.0 is retained. Both 3D and 2D interpolate source values before applying colors.