VIIRS Active Fire Detections for Russia and Asia

Near-real-time active fire and thermal anomaly detections covering Russia and Asia, derived from NASA's VIIRS sensor family. The data is provided by NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) and is continuously updated, typically within 3 hours of satellite acquisition. Files are available for the last 24 hours, 48 hours, and 7 days.

Use Cases

• Monitor wildfire spread and intensity based on near-real-time thermal anomaly detections.
• Analyze regional fire activity trends over time based on data from multiple VIIRS satellites.
• Integrate active fire locations into geographic information systems for resource management based on SHP and KML formats.

Strengths

• Data is updated within 3 hours of satellite acquisition, enabling near-real-time monitoring.
• Covers a specific geographic region (Russia and Asia) with data from multiple VIIRS satellites (Suomi-NPP since 2011, NOAA-20 since 2017, NOAA-21 since 2022).
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (SHP, KML, CSV) for different analysis workflows.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

Collection Method

Derived from the VIIRS sensor family on Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 satellites.

Time Range

Data available for the last 24h, 48h, and 7d; sensor data spans from 2011 to present.

Freshness

Continuously updated; last metadata update was 2026-05-13 14:51:51.064411.

Geography

Russia and Asia.