Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

FIRMS delivers global hotspots / fire locations in easy to use formats

FIRMS distributes Near Real-Time active fire data within 3 hours of satellite overpass from both MODIS and VIIRS.

MODIS Collection 5 Active Fire Data will be discontinued at the end of 2016. It is recommended that users switch to MODIS Collection 6 Data. Links to download Collection 6 data.

Collection 6 has been available since September 2015. Find out more what 's new in Collection 6? The MODIS NRT active fire products (MCD14DL) are processed using the standard MOD14/MYD14 Fire and Thermal Anomalies product. Each MODIS active fire location represents the center of a 1km pixel that is flagged by the algorithm as containing one or more fires within the pixel.

New: The VIIRS NRT 375 m active fire products (VNP14IMGTDL_NRT) complements MODIS fire detections but the improved spatial resolution of the 375 m data provides a greater response over fires of relatively small areas.The 375 m data also has improved nighttime performance. More...

Please note, in an effort to standardize VIIRS file names, the short name for VIIRS NRT 375 m product has been changed from VNP14IMGT to VNP14IMGTDL_NRT (updated 18 April 2016).

As FIRMS transitions to distributing MODIS Collection 6 and VIIRS the following table shows what data are available.

	MODIS C5	MODIS C6	VIIRS
Email alerts	x	✅	✅
Shape files (SHP)	ending soon	✅	✅
Comma-separated text files (TXT)	ending soon	✅	✅
KML	ending soon	✅	✅
Archive download tool	x	✅	✅
Web Fire Mapper	x	✅	✅
WMS	ending soon	✅	✅
Worldview	x	✅	✅