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RegionsSaudi Arabia

Al Mahd

Next 7 daysLow4%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
early December – mid January
Record year
202584
Trend
−7%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +75%

Fire clock

Ring = year, slice = week. Click a ring to focus that year.

Total detections per year
YearTotal
200120
200221
200319
200418
200518
200622
200718
200817
200918
201020
201117
201223
201319
201419
201518
201613
201712
20189
201939
202015
202111
202215
202317
202438
202584
202679

Next 7 days

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Expected detections: ~0.3

  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • This year is more active than normal↑
  • No rain expected in the coming days↑
  • Outside the fire season↓
Sat33°
Sun33°
Mon33°
Tue33°
Wed31°
Thu31°
Fri31°

Right now

late October

This week0.0

This week is more active than 22% of past years at this time

Year to date79
#1 of 26 yearsNormal: 15

Season

mid September – early June

Onset
mid September
Peak
mid December
End
early June

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • early December – mid January

    22% of annual activity

  • mid February – early March

    12% of annual activity

  • early May – mid May

    6% of annual activity

The normal year vs 2026

Bands show the 25-year range; the white line is this year so far.

25-year history

The raw record jumps in 2012 when VIIRS arrives; the harmonized record does not.

Harmonized: −7%/10Raw: +75%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

12

  • 2013

    19

    season began 11 weeks late

  • 2014

    19

    season began 3 weeks early

  • 2015

    18

    season ended 12 weeks early

  • 2017

    12

    only 0.7× the normal annual activity

    season began 3 weeks early

    season ended 14 weeks early

  • 2018

    9

    only 0.5× the normal annual activity

    season began 9 weeks late

    season ended 9 weeks early

  • 2019

    39

    2.2× the normal annual activity

    season began 4 weeks late

  • 2020

    15

    season began 16 weeks late

  • 2021

    11

    only 0.6× the normal annual activity

  • 2022

    15

    season ended 11 weeks early

  • 2024

    38

    2.1× the normal annual activity

    season began 3 weeks late

  • 2025

    84

    4.7× the normal annual activity

    peak 18× stronger than normal

    season began 13 weeks late

  • 2026

    79

    4.4× the normal annual activity

    peak 9.6× stronger than normal

    season ended 12 weeks early

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One fire history for the Land of Fire.

Built for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026.

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Data sources

NASA FIRMS, NASA POWER, Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap, geoBoundaries, OpenFreeMap

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