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FireWatch

Live wildfire detections from NASA satellites plus active incident tracking.

250
Tracked now
66
Strongest (MW (FRP))
NASA EONET + FIRMS
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  • 3
    Fire (FRP 2.53)
    Low · 2.53 MW (FRP)
  • 7
    Fire (FRP 7.19)
    Low · 7.19 MW (FRP)
  • 10
    Fire (FRP 10.39)
    Low · 10.39 MW (FRP)
  • 5
    Fire (FRP 4.98)
    Low · 4.98 MW (FRP)
  • 5
    Fire (FRP 5.2)
    Low · 5.2 MW (FRP)
  • 7
    Fire (FRP 7.22)
    Low · 7.22 MW (FRP)
  • 4
    Fire (FRP 4.49)
    Low · 4.49 MW (FRP)
  • 9
    Fire (FRP 9.46)
    Low · 9.46 MW (FRP)
  • 23
    Fire (FRP 22.97)
    Low · 22.97 MW (FRP)
  • 16
    Fire (FRP 15.5)
    Low · 15.5 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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