FIRMS US/Canada offers additional contextual layers and enhancements, including integration of U.S. LANCE FIRMS developers partnered with the USDA Forest Service to create FIRMS US/Canada. In addition, data (including historical data) can be downloaded in multiple geographic information system (GIS) formats. Users also can sign up to receive alerts for hotspots detected in user-defined areas of interest.įIRMS provides enhanced interactive tools for visualizing satellite imagery, active fire detections, and other NASA science products relevant to wildfire management. Detected anomalies are updated constantly and plotted as orange (MODIS) or red (VIIRS) dots and indicate the approximate location of a potential wildfire or other thermal anomaly. Thermal anomalies detected by MODIS or VIIRS are defined as the center of a 1 km pixel (MODIS) or a 375 m pixel (VIIRS) flagged as containing one or more fires or other thermal anomalies (such as an active volcano). FIRMS is part of NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS ( LANCE). Active fire/hotspot data acquired by instruments aboard geostationary satellites will be added to FIRMS later in 2022.
NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System ( FIRMS) distributes global near real-time (NRT) active fire data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments aboard Earth orbiting satellites within three hours of an observation. Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) and FIRMS US/Canada The Data Pathfinder also provides access to tools and applications for discovering, visualizing, and working with wildfire-related resources in NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) collection. The Wildfires Data Pathfinder directs users to NASA datasets that can aid in forecasting events, monitoring ongoing events, and assessing post-fire areas. wildfire statistics are available through the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). In 2021, California accounted for the highest number of structures lost in one state: 2,031 residences, 196 commercial/mixed residential structures, and 1,136 minor structures."Īlong with near real-time wildfire data available through NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS, described below), current U.S. But wildfires also have a human component, and the NICC report notes that "a total of 5,972 structures were reported destroyed by wildfires in 2021, including 3,577 residences, 2,225 minor structures, and 237 commercial/mixed residential structures. that consumed 7,125,643 acres, according to the 2021 Annual Report by the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC). In 2021, 58,985 wildfires were reported across the U.S. Department of Agriculture, through contributing factors including extended drought, the build-up of fuels, past fire management strategies, invasive species targeting specific tree species, and the spread of residential communities into formerly natural areas. The number, severity, and overall size of wildfires has increased, according to the U.S. wildfires in 2021 (red bar) was slightly lower than the 5- and 10-year averages (blue bars on right).
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