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FireWatch

Live wildfire detections from NASA satellites plus active incident tracking.

250
Tracked now
63
Strongest (MW (FRP))
NASA EONET + FIRMS
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  • 5
    Fire (FRP 4.82)
    Low · 4.82 MW (FRP)
  • 2
    Fire (FRP 1.57)
    Low · 1.57 MW (FRP)
  • 5
    Fire (FRP 4.82)
    Low · 4.82 MW (FRP)
  • 1
    Fire (FRP 0.96)
    Low · 0.96 MW (FRP)
  • 1
    Fire (FRP 1.22)
    Low · 1.22 MW (FRP)
  • 2
    Fire (FRP 1.7)
    Low · 1.7 MW (FRP)
  • 1
    Fire (FRP 0.96)
    Low · 0.96 MW (FRP)
  • 1
    Fire (FRP 1.22)
    Low · 1.22 MW (FRP)
  • 1
    Fire (FRP 0.54)
    Low · 0.54 MW (FRP)
  • 1
    Fire (FRP 0.82)
    Low · 0.82 MW (FRP)

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Learn the basics

A wildfire is an unplanned fire burning in vegetation — forest, grassland, shrub or peat. FireWatch tracks them two ways: satellite “hot-spot” detections that flag where something is burning right now, and named incidents with reported size and containment.

Each satellite detection carries a Fire Radiative Power (FRP) value — how much energy the fire is releasing — which FireWatch uses as its intensity scale. More FRP means a more intense burn front, though a single detection is a 375 m–1 km pixel, not a precise fire perimeter.

How satellites spot firesThermal sensors, the FRP intensity measure, why detections come in batches, and what a hot spot can and cannot tell you.What makes a fire spreadThe fire triangle, why weather and terrain dominate, and the red-flag conditions that drive explosive growth.Reading incidents and containmentWhat acreage and “percent contained” really mean, and why a fire can be large yet largely controlled — or small yet dangerous.
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