Records in the live release
71,385
Release 2026-11-12, 12 November 2026. Its fingerprint: 9f1a288d34050be2af9c654d88737a4559fe59fc4a31f228f5346528ba4ee23b (what that is).
Datasets·UM-045·Environment and climate·Early access
Burnt area and fire by ward
Fires seen from space in every ward each month since 2012, and how much land burnt since 2018. Satellite sightings, not fire-brigade reports.
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What it holds
In more detail
Fire detections each month for every 2026 ward, municipality, district and province since 2012 (NASA FIRMS, VIIRS 375 m, NOAA-20 as a second reading) and hectares burnt each month since July 2018 (Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Burnt Area 300 m), with the share of the place burnt. Seen from space, by ward and month only; not fires reported on the ground.
How far it reaches
71,385 records: every 2026 ward, municipality, district and province, fire detections monthly from February 2012 and burnt area from July 2018, to 2026-10.
How often it changes
Monthly
Monthly: FIRMS within days of a month's end; CLMS publishes a month's burnt area some weeks after.
Where the figures come from
NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), LANCE; Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.
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Measured accuracy
Not measured yet. How we measure it.
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Get it
On this site
See fire and burnt area, free, no account.
Through the API
/v1/datasets/wildfire-history/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
Being built. The list.
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
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