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Forest-sized land burned while you’ve been reading
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Context counter at a global annual-average burned-area pace — not a live satellite burn-rate feed.
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EONET open status
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recently contained
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by reported ha
Where are fires burning?
Red circles = open fires sized by reported hectares; gray = closed in the last six months. Click a point for name and size.
Fires in your country
Finding fires near your country…
US states with active fires
Which countries carry the most fire load?
Top 10 countries by combined reported burned area on open fires. Country from fire coordinates (Natural Earth), not EONET titles.
Major incidents
How does today compare to mega-fires?
Hand-curated landmark seasons — dot size scales with burned area; labels show year, region, and deaths when known.
Fire and the wider climate picture
What drives this
- Extreme heat →Hotter weeks dry vegetation and lengthen fire weather windows.
- Drought stress →Dry soils and stressed plants turn landscapes into fuel.
- ENSO shifts →El Niño and La Niña tilt rainfall and fire risk across regions.
What this drives
- Permafrost carbon →Boreal and tundra fires can expose old carbon and deepen thaw.
- Forest loss →Fire can be a driver, symptom, or consequence of tree-cover loss.
- Climate feedback →Fire emissions add heat-trapping gases that feed the wider system.
How we know this
- Source: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) v3 wildfire category — agency reports from IRWIN, CAL FIRE, InciWeb, and international partners.
- Update cadence: We download the public EONET feed daily; values change when source agencies post updates, not minute-by-minute.
- Geography: Country and US state are inferred from each fire’s coordinates using a bundled Natural Earth 110m lookup — not official geocodes from NASA.
- Methods: Burned area is normalised to hectares (some US feeds report acres). The map includes open fires and fires closed within roughly six months.
- Limitations: EONET lists prescribed burns and wildfires together; satellite hotspot pixels (FIRMS) and smoke forecasts are not wired yet. “Fires near you” uses ipapi.co IP geolocation.
- Primary data: NASA EONET · How this page is built