California Fires Satellite Map

Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.

California fires satellite map.

Latest updates on san francisco bay area fires and wildfires burning across northern california and evacuation orders. The aerosols have traveled east. The data they provide is for california only. Goes 16 goes 17 modis and viiirs.

Fire origins mark the fire fighter s best guess of where the fire started. Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume. These data are used to make highly accurate perimeter maps for firefighters and other emergency personnel but are generally updated only once every 12 hours. Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.

There are six fire detection satellite platforms used for our map. The fires locations are approximates. Goes 16 and goes 17 the goes 16 and 17 satellites are in a geostationary orbit meaning they rotate with the earth and always view the same area of earth s surface. Hot spot data uses satellite detection to identify areas of high temperature.

The data is provided by calfire. This map created by cal fire provides general locations of major fires burning in california. How to use this map. Nasa satellite images map spread of 2020 wildfires from space nasa satellite images have revealed more than 650 wildfires have broken out across california with he space agency.

This map contains four different types of data. 7 2020 image of the aerosols released from the wildfires in california.