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Wildfire map: active fires worldwide

Fires seen from space by NASA's VIIRS instruments in the last 24 hours, and the named wildfires NASA and partners are tracking.

Updated 2026-10-04 23:22 UTC · refreshes every few minutes
74,599
Fire detections, 24 h
45
Tracked wildfires
0
GDACS orange/red alerts
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Tracked wildfires

How to read this

A detection is a satellite pixel hot enough to be burning at the moment of an overpass (low-confidence detections are left out). One large fire can produce many detections, and clouds or smoke can hide fires, so this is a picture of activity, not a count of fires.

Sources: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP, last 24 h); NASA EONET; GDACS (UN / European Commission).

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