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RegionsSaudi Arabia

Khobar

Next 7 daysLow0%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
mid December – late January
Record year
200124
Trend
−111%/ 10significant · on raw data: 0%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
200124
200221
200318
200419
200523
200619
200719
200818
200919
201019
201118
20121
20131
20141
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20200
20210
20221
20234
20240
20250
20260

Next 7 days

Low

Full risk view

0%

Low

Expected detections: ~0.0

  • Outside the fire season↓
Sat34°
Sun34°
Mon34°
Tue36°
Wed33°
Thu33°
Fri33°

Right now

late October

This week0.0

This week is more active than 26% of past years at this time

Year to date0
#17 of 26 yearsNormal: 1

Season

late August – early June

Onset
late August
Peak
late March
End
early June

Critical windows

  • mid December – late January

    13% of annual activity

  • mid March – early April

    10% of annual activity

  • late October – early November

    4% 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: −111%/10Raw: 0%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

7

  • 2001

    24

    20× the normal annual activity

  • 2005

    23

    19× the normal annual activity

    peak 2.5× stronger than normal

  • 2012

    1

    season began 18 weeks late

    season ended 19 weeks early

  • 2013

    1

    season ended 39 weeks early

  • 2014

    1

    season began 8 weeks late

    season ended 31 weeks early

  • 2022

    1

    season began 30 weeks late

    season ended 9 weeks early

  • 2023

    4

    peak 3.4× stronger than normal

    season began 29 weeks late

    season ended 9 weeks early

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ODLAR

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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