MODIS Rapid Response System Status

Active Hotspot/Fire Text files

Daily active fire text files are available for the last 2 months from the following ftp site:

ftp://mapsftp.geog.umd.edu

Active hotspot/fire Shape files

Active hotspot/fire shape files are available for the last 48 hours and 7 day time periods. These shape files are updated every 4 hours starting at 00:50 ET (USA). The files have been zipped to reduce download size. Please use any valid compression software to extract the contents. The size of the files vary each day in accordance to the number of hotspots/fires, in general, the zipped file size should range anywhere between 3 KB to 3.0 MB.

The image above gives the geographic extent of each of the subsets. Please download the shape file corresponding to your region of interest.

Shape files are in 'Geographic' projection, WGS 1984.

Shape files are available for the following regions:

Web Fire Mapper WMS
The Web Fire Mapper WMS (version 1.1.1) offers Open GIS Consoritum standard Web Map Service interface. Using the Web Fire Mapper WMS, you can allow your local (desktop) or web GIS clients to access the Web Fire Mapper data without accessing the Web Fire Mapper Website. More information...

MODIS Hotspots KML
FIRMS is now offering experimental Keyhole Markup Language (KML), version 2.0, to view MODIS hotspot/fire detections for the past 24 hours using Google Earth. More information...

MODIS Hotspots/Fire NASA World Wind Plugin

FIRMS now provides a plugin for NASA World Wind to display hotspot/fire detections for the last 48 hours. More information...