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Umluj

Next 7 daysLow2%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
early February – late March
Record year
202326
Trend
+16%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +133%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
200111
200211
200313
200412
200511
200611
200713
200811
200911
201011
201111
20125
20131
20143
20152
201615
201719
201818
201917
20203
202113
202214
202326
202417
202516
20265

Next 7 days

Low

Full risk view

0%

Low

Expected detections: ~0.1

  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • Dry air (27%)↑
  • Outside the fire season↓
Sat33°
Sun34°
Mon37°
Tue37°
Wed36°
Thu33°
Fri30°

Right now

late October

This week0.0

This week is more active than 24% of past years at this time

Year to date5
#21 of 26 yearsNormal: 9

Season

mid December – mid September

Onset
mid December
Peak
late June
End
mid September

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • early February – late March

    20% of annual activity

  • late June – early July

    12% 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: +16%/10Raw: +133%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

13

  • 2007

    13

    season began 6 weeks early

  • 2012

    5

    only 0.4× the normal annual activity

    season ended 3 weeks early

  • 2014

    3

    only 0.3× the normal annual activity

    season ended 14 weeks early

  • 2015

    2

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

    season ended 13 weeks early

  • 2016

    15

    season ended 3 weeks late

  • 2017

    19

    season began 8 weeks late

    season ended 5 weeks late

  • 2020

    3

    only 0.3× the normal annual activity

    season began 9 weeks late

    season ended 17 weeks early

  • 2021

    13

    season ended 6 weeks late

  • 2022

    14

    season ended 16 weeks early

  • 2023

    26

    2.3× the normal annual activity

    peak 4.5× stronger than normal

    season ended 6 weeks early

  • 2024

    17

    peak 5.5× stronger than normal

    season began 23 weeks late

  • 2025

    16

    season began 6 weeks late

    season ended 10 weeks early

  • 2026

    5

    only 0.4× the normal annual activity

    season began 23 weeks late

    season ended 14 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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