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Tathlith

Next 7 daysLow4%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
late January – mid February
Record year
201715
Trend
0%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +48%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
20016
20025
20036
20046
20055
20066
20076
20086
20096
20106
20116
20121
20130
20147
20158
201613
201715
20186
20196
20206
20219
20224
20231
20242
20250
20268

Next 7 days

Low

Full risk view

0%

Low

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↓
Sat32°
Sun32°
Mon31°
Tue30°
Wed30°
Thu31°
Fri32°

Right now

late October

This week4.0

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

Year to date8
#4 of 26 yearsNormal: 5

Season

early July – early March

Onset
early July
Peak
early February
End
early March

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • late January – mid February

    14% of annual activity

  • mid September – late September

    10% of annual activity

  • mid July – early August

    10% 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: 0%/10Raw: +48%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

13

  • 2012

    1

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

    season began 21 weeks late

    season ended 8 weeks early

  • 2014

    7

    peak 3.0× stronger than normal

    season began 4 weeks early

    season ended 15 weeks early

  • 2015

    8

    peak 7.6× stronger than normal

    season began 4 weeks late

    season ended 4 weeks early

  • 2016

    13

    2.3× the normal annual activity

    peak 4.6× stronger than normal

    season began 8 weeks early

    season ended 4 weeks early

  • 2017

    15

    2.6× the normal annual activity

    peak 4.6× stronger than normal

    season began 3 weeks early

    season ended 5 weeks late

  • 2018

    6

    peak 4.6× stronger than normal

    season ended 7 weeks early

  • 2019

    6

    peak 4.6× stronger than normal

  • 2020

    6

    peak 3.0× stronger than normal

    season ended 8 weeks early

  • 2021

    9

    1.6× the normal annual activity

    peak 6.1× stronger than normal

    season began 9 weeks late

    season ended 6 weeks early

  • 2022

    4

    peak 3.0× stronger than normal

    season began 20 weeks late

    season ended 3 weeks early

  • 2023

    1

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

    season began 30 weeks late

    season ended 5 weeks early

  • 2024

    2

    only 0.3× the normal annual activity

    season began 12 weeks late

    season ended 4 weeks late

  • 2026

    8

    peak 9.1× stronger than normal

    season began 3 weeks late

    season ended 20 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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