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Window ending 2026-10-12 03:49 UTC  ·  rebuilt hourly

28,511fires in the window
165,038satellite detections
5,336days of burn archive
57 of 2762026 days above the 90th percentile

Global activity, day by day

Distinct square kilometres that burned each day, across the 391 days we hold in this window. 9 days here were never ingested and are drawn as gaps.

107,632 cells2025-09-082026-10-12

Fires by country

Where the 28,511 fires in this window sit, by the country whose border contains them (Natural Earth 1:10m). Top 15 of 147.

MozambiqueMozambique: 4,0444,044BrazilBrazil: 3,5923,592IndonesiaIndonesia: 2,6412,641ChinaChina: 2,1242,124ZambiaZambia: 1,9561,956TanzaniaTanzania: 1,8551,855MadagascarMadagascar: 1,2511,251Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea: 1,1201,120TurkeyTurkey: 839839Democratic Republic ofDemocratic Republic of the Congo: 745745IndiaIndia: 696696ZimbabweZimbabwe: 606606Russian FederationRussian Federation: 518518PeruPeru: 477477United StatesUnited States: 474474
Table view
CountryFires
Mozambique4,044
Brazil3,592
Indonesia2,641
China2,124
Zambia1,956
Tanzania1,855
Madagascar1,251
Papua New Guinea1,120
Turkey839
Democratic Republic of the Congo745
India696
Zimbabwe606
Russian Federation518
Peru477
United States474
Angola440
Australia380
Malawi313
Iran248
Sudan245
South Africa216
Ukraine216
Venezuela170
South Sudan161
Bolivia159
Guyana151
Iraq147
Kazakhstan146
Nigeria122
Chad104
Japan89
Egypt87
Saudi Arabia81
Timor-Leste74
Suriname74
Colombia70
Libya67
Algeria65
Ethiopia64
Syria63

Night pass, by road density

Share of fires first seen on the night overpass, against how roaded the ground is. Whiskers are 95% intervals. VIIRS passes about 01:30 and 13:30 local solar, so this is which pass caught a fire first, not the hour it began.

No roadsNo roads: 16%16.2% n=9,4191-50 m/km21-50 m/km2: 16%16.4% n=2,04950-200 m/km250-200 m/km2: 16%16.5% n=8,639200-1000 m/km2200-1000 m/km2: 22%22.8% n=7,296over 1000 m/km2over 1000 m/km2: 46%46.5% n=949
Table view
Road densityNight pass95% intervaln
No roads16.2%15.5-17.0%9,419
1-50 m/km216.4%14.9-18.1%2,049
50-200 m/km216.5%15.7-17.3%8,639
200-1000 m/km222.8%21.9-23.8%7,296
over 1000 m/km246.5%43.3-49.6%949

Which platform saw it

The same fire is often found by more than one satellite, so these add up to more than the 28,511 fires in the window. Three platforms carry VIIRS and each passes about 01:30 and 13:30 local solar time, roughly fifty minutes apart, so a fire burning through one pass tends to appear in several.

Suomi NPPSuomi NPP: 15,29915,299NOAA-20NOAA-20: 15,60215,602NOAA-21NOAA-21: 16,13916,139

How many platforms agreed

A fire found by one satellite and not the others was either short, small, or under cloud when the others looked. This is a measure of how much of the record rests on a single observation.

1 platform1 platform: 15,87915,879 56%2 platforms2 platforms: 6,7356,735 24%3 platforms3 platforms: 5,8975,897 21%
Table view
PlatformsFiresShare
1 platform15,87955.7%
2 platforms6,73523.6%
3 platforms5,89720.7%

What the ground is

Land cover under each fire, ESA WorldCover at 10 m. Sampled for 5,710 of 28,511 fires so far; the rest fill in as the cache grows.

Tree coverTree cover: 3,0223,022GrasslandGrassland: 1,0721,072ShrublandShrubland: 726726CroplandCropland: 396396Bare or sparseBare or sparse: 211211Herbaceous wetlandHerbaceous wetland: 129129Built upBuilt up: 108108WaterWater: 3838

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