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RegionsSaudi Arabia

Rabigh

Next 7 daysExtreme88%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
mid May – mid July
Record year
2025155
Trend
−8%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +114%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
200167
200264
200355
200458
200558
200661
200760
200857
200963
201064
201159
201266
201333
201435
201548
201656
201731
201844
201952
202038
202148
202233
202365
202465
2025155
2026263

Next 7 days

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Extreme

Expected detections: ~8.6

  • This year is more active than normal↑
  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • An active part of the fire season↑
Sat37°
Sun38°
Mon39°
Tue42°
Wed39°
Thu35°
Fri36°

Right now

late October

This week3.0

This week is more active than 88% of past years at this time

Year to date263
#1 of 26 yearsNormal: 48

Season

late September – early July

Onset
late September
Peak
late May
End
early July

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • mid May – mid July

    24% of annual activity

  • early March – late March

    7% 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: −8%/10Raw: +114%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

13

  • 2013

    33

    only 0.6× the normal annual activity

  • 2014

    35

    only 0.6× the normal annual activity

    season began 9 weeks late

    season ended 4 weeks late

  • 2015

    48

    season ended 4 weeks early

  • 2016

    56

    season began 7 weeks late

    season ended 3 weeks early

  • 2017

    31

    only 0.5× the normal annual activity

    season ended 9 weeks early

  • 2018

    44

    season began 9 weeks late

    season ended 4 weeks early

  • 2020

    38

    only 0.7× the normal annual activity

  • 2021

    48

    season ended 6 weeks early

  • 2022

    33

    only 0.6× the normal annual activity

  • 2023

    65

    peak 4.3× stronger than normal

    season began 20 weeks late

  • 2024

    65

    peak 4.0× stronger than normal

    season began 16 weeks late

  • 2025

    155

    2.7× the normal annual activity

    peak 4.0× stronger than normal

  • 2026

    263

    4.6× the normal annual activity

    peak 7.0× stronger than normal

    season began 3 weeks early

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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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