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Arar

Next 7 daysExtreme85%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
late May – early August
Record year
2017135
Trend
−2%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +103%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
200145
200245
200340
200442
200542
200641
200743
200840
200942
201042
201140
201218
20139
201415
201527
201660
2017135
2018117
201936
202031
202114
202235
202350
202474
2025108
2026127

Next 7 days

Extreme

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Extreme

Expected detections: ~7.0

  • This year is more active than normal↑
  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • An active part of the fire season↑
Sat26°
Sun27°
Mon26°
Tue30°
Wed27°
Thu25°
Fri22°

Right now

late October

This week13

This week is more active than 100% of past years at this time

Year to date127
#1 of 26 yearsNormal: 36

Season

mid April – mid January

Onset
mid April
Peak
late July
End
mid January

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • late May – early August

    31% 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: −2%/10Raw: +103%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

15

  • 2012

    18

    only 0.4× the normal annual activity

    season began 8 weeks late

  • 2013

    9

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

    season began 6 weeks late

    season ended 5 weeks early

  • 2014

    15

    only 0.4× the normal annual activity

  • 2015

    27

    season began 6 weeks late

    season ended 6 weeks late

  • 2016

    60

    season ended 13 weeks early

  • 2017

    135

    3.2× the normal annual activity

    peak 9.4× stronger than normal

    season ended 4 weeks early

  • 2018

    117

    2.8× the normal annual activity

    peak 6.2× stronger than normal

  • 2019

    36

    season began 7 weeks late

  • 2020

    31

    peak 3.8× stronger than normal

    season began 24 weeks late

    season ended 4 weeks late

  • 2021

    14

    only 0.3× the normal annual activity

    season began 4 weeks early

    season ended 17 weeks early

  • 2022

    35

    peak 5.6× stronger than normal

    season began 6 weeks late

  • 2023

    50

    peak 3.0× stronger than normal

    season began 4 weeks early

  • 2024

    74

    1.8× the normal annual activity

    peak 7.0× stronger than normal

    season began 17 weeks late

    season ended 7 weeks early

  • 2025

    108

    2.6× the normal annual activity

    peak 4.4× stronger than normal

    season ended 7 weeks early

  • 2026

    127

    3.0× the normal annual activity

    peak 5.2× stronger than normal

    season began 4 weeks late

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Data sources

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

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