FireWatch
Live wildfire detections from NASA satellites plus active incident tracking.
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All observations →- 0Wildfire Wild River, Coos, New HampshireLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire Dry Lake Hills Piles RX, Coconino, ArizonaLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire McCarty Piles RX, Coconino, ArizonaLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire Freidland-Chimney Piles RX, Coconino, ArizonaLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire TON RX - BAILEY LOST HP, Okanogan, WashingtonLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Wildfire South Tank Trail, Perry, MississippiLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire Walker Hill 3 Piles RX, Coconino, ArizonaLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire Brie Slash Piles RX, Coconino, ArizonaLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Prescribed Fire Newman 3 Piles RX, Coconino, ArizonaLow · 0 MW (FRP)
- 0Wildfire Range 47B, Forrest, MississippiLow · 0 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.