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Al Taif

Next 7 daysLow11%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
mid December – mid January
Record year
202586
Trend
−10%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +99%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
200133
200256
200334
200451
200560
200630
200730
200830
200929
201041
201161
201241
201341
201435
201552
201650
201729
201841
201928
202032
202133
202222
202319
202433
202586
202637

Next 7 days

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Expected detections: ~0.5

  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • An active part of the fire season↑
  • No rain expected in the coming days↑
Sat31°
Sun32°
Mon33°
Tue31°
Wed30°
Thu31°
Fri31°

Right now

late October

This week0.0

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

Year to date37
#7 of 26 yearsNormal: 27

Season

mid September – mid July

Onset
mid September
Peak
early July
End
mid July

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • mid December – mid January

    10% of annual activity

  • early July – mid July

    10% of annual activity

  • late November – early December

    8% 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: −10%/10Raw: +99%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

8

  • 2005

    60

    1.7× the normal annual activity

  • 2011

    61

    1.8× the normal annual activity

  • 2019

    28

    season ended 13 weeks early

  • 2020

    32

    season began 7 weeks late

  • 2022

    22

    season began 19 weeks late

  • 2023

    19

    only 0.6× the normal annual activity

    season ended 10 weeks early

  • 2024

    33

    season began 7 weeks late

  • 2025

    86

    2.5× the normal annual activity

    peak 7.1× stronger than normal

    season began 13 weeks late

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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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