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Description

The Global Fire Atlas is a global dataset that tracks the day-to-day dynamics of individual fires to determine the timing and location of ignitions, fire size, duration, daily expansion, fire line length, speed, and direction of spread. These individual fire characteristics were derived based on the Global Fire Atlas algorithm and estimated day of burn information at 500-m resolution from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 MCD64A1 burned area product. The algorithm identified 13.3 million individual fires (>=21 ha or 0.21 km2; the size of one MODIS pixel) over the 2003-2016 study period.

Product Summary

Platforms
COMPUTERS ,
Terra ,
Aqua
Instruments
Computer ,
MODIS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2003-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2389158955-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
182
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Burned Area ,
Fire Dynamics ,
Fire Occurrence

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Andela, N., Morton, D. C., Giglio, L., & Randerson, J. T. (2019). Global Fire Atlas with Characteristics of Individual Fires, 2003-2016 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1642 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

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Estimation of distribution of vegetation fire zones in the Russian Far East Zubareva, . ., Glagolev, V. A. Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Non-parametric spatiotemporal trends in fire: An approach to identify Karami, Peyman, Tavakoli, Sajad Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Assessing fire danger classes and extreme thresholds of the Canadian Kudlackova, Lucie, Bartosova, Lenka, Linda, Rostislav, Blahova, Monika, Podebradska, Marketa, Fischer, Milan, Balek, Jan, Zalud, Zdenek, Trnka, Miroslav Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Detecting Burned Vegetation Areas by Merging Spectral and Texture Features in a ResNet Deep Learning Architecture Fan, Jiahui, Yao, Yunjun, Li, Yajie, Zhang, Xueyi, Chen, Jiquan, Fisher, Joshua B., Zhang, Xiaotong, Jiang, Bo, Liu, Lu, Xie, Zijing, Zhang, Luna, Qiu, Fei Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
State of Wildfires 2024-2025 Kelley, Douglas I., Burton, Chantelle, Di Giuseppe, Francesca, Jones, Matthew W., Barbosa, Maria L. F., Brambleby, Esther, McNorton, Joe R., Liu, Zhongwei, Bradley, Anna S. I., Blackford, Katie, Burke, Eleanor, Ciavarella, Andrew, Di Tomaso, Enza, Eden, Jonathan, Ferreira, Igor Jose M., Fiedler, Lukas, Hartley, Andrew J., Keeping, Theodore R., Lampe, Seppe, Lombardi, Anna, Mataveli, Guilherme, Qu, Yuquan, Silva, Patricia S., Spuler, Fiona R., Steinmann, Carmen B., Torres-Vazquez, Miguel Angel, Veiga, Renata, van Wees, Dave, Wessel, Jakob B., Wright, Emily, Bilbao, Bibiana, Bourbonnais, Mathieu, Gao, Cong, Di Bella, Carlos M., Dintwe, Kebonye, Donovan, Victoria M., Harris, Sarah, Kukavskaya, Elena A., N'Dri, Aya Brigitte, Santin, Cristina, Selaya, Galia, Sjostrom, Johan, Abatzoglou, John T., Andela, Niels, Carmenta, Rachel, Chuvieco, Emilio, Giglio, Louis, Hamilton, Douglas S., Hantson, Stijn, Meier, Sarah, Parrington, Mark, Sadegh, Mojtaba, San-Miguel-Ayanz, Jesus, Sedano, Fernando, Turco, Marco, van der Werf, Guido R., Veraverbeke, Sander, Anderson, Liana O., Clarke, Hamish, Fernandes, Paulo M., Kolden, Crystal A. Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Fire Dynamics
Using hydrological modelling to improve the Fire Weather Index system Mortelmans, J., Apers, S., De Lannoy, G. J. M., Veraverbeke, S., Field, R. D., Andela, N., Page, S. E., Bechtold, M. Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
A Hybrid Index for Monitoring Burned Vegetation by Combining Image Fan, Jiahui, Yao, Yunjun, Tang, Qingxin, Zhang, Xueyi, Xu, Jia, Yu, Ruiyang, Liu, Lu, Xie, Zijing, Ning, Jing, Zhang, Luna Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Improving the fire weather index system for peatlands using peat-specific hydrological input data Mortelmans, Jonas, Felsberg, Anne, De Lannoy, Gabrielle J. M., Veraverbeke, Sander, Field, Robert D., Andela, Niels, Bechtold, Michel Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Holocene fire dynamics and their climatic controls on the southern Cape Strobel, Paul, Henning, Theresa, Bliedtner, Marcel, Mosher, Stella G., Rahimova, Humay, Haberzettl, Torsten, Kirsten, Kelly L., Lehndorff, Eva, Power, Mitchell J., Zech, Michael, Zech, Roland RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
The effect of fire-induced forest-degradation on rainfall: a causal inference analysis of the case of the Brazilian Amazon F. Morello R. Silva, Thiago Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset Barber, Quinn E., Jain, Piyush, Whitman, Ellen, Thompson, Dan K., Guindon, Luc, Parks, Sean A., Wang, Xianli, Hethcoat, Matthew G., Parisien, Marc-Andre Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Vegetation Index, Landscape Patterns, Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Surface Radiative Properties, Land Surface Temperature
Forecasting the anthropogenic fire hazard of vegetation according to satellite images Glagolev, Vladimir, Zubareva, Anna M. Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Global scale coupling of pyromes and fire regimes Pais, Cristobal, Gonzalez-Olabarria, Jose Ramon, Elimbi Moudio, Pelagie, Garcia-Gonzalo, Jordi, Gonzalez, Marta C., Shen, Zuo-Jun Max Population Density, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Fire Dynamics
Characterization of land cover-specific fire regimes in the Brazilian Cano-Crespo, Ana, Traxl, Dominik, Prat-Ortega, Genis, Rolinski, Susanne, Thonicke, Kirsten Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves Lecina-Diaz, Judit, Campos, Joao, Pais, Silvana, Carvalho-Santos, Claudia, Azevedo, Joao, Fernandes, Paulo, Goncalves, Joao, Aquilue, Nuria, Roces-Diaz, Jose V., Agrelo de la Torre, Maria, Brotons, Lluis, Chas-Amil, Maria-Luisa, Lomba, Angela, Duane, Andrea, Moreira, Francisco, Touza, Julia, Hermoso, Virgilio, Sil, Angelo, Vicente, Joana, Honrado, Joao, Regos, Adrian Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Mining the drivers of forest cover change in the upper Indus Valley Yan, Xinrong, Wang, Juanle, Liu, Xiaotong, Zhao, Hongyu, Wu, Yuxin Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Re-examining the assumption of dominant regional wind and fire spread directions Shmuel, Assaf, Heifetz, Eyal Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing Campbell, Anthony D, Fatoyinbo, Temilola, Charles, Sean P, Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L, Goes, Joaquim, Gomes, Helga, Halabisky, Meghan, Holmquist, James, Lohrenz, Steven, Mitchell, Catherine, Moskal, L Monika, Poulter, Benjamin, Qiu, Han, Resende De Sousa, Celio H, Sayers, Michael, Simard, Marc, Stewart, Anthony J, Singh, Debjani, Trettin, Carl, Wu, Jinghui, Zhang, Xuesong, Lagomasino, David Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Wetlands, Forests, Fire Ecology, Wetlands, Coastal, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Intertidal Zone, Biomass, Canopy Characteristics, Dominant Species, Salt Marsh, Vegetation Species, Carbon, Biogeochemical Cycles
Assessing Wildfire Vulnerability of Vegetated Serpentine Soils in the Balkan Peninsula Hysa, Artan, Teqja, Zydi, Bani, Aida, Libohova, Zamir, Cerda, Artemi Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Declining severe fire activity on managed lands in Equatorial Asia Sloan, Sean, Locatelli, Bruno, Andela, Niels, Cattau, Megan E., Gaveau, David, Tacconi, Luca Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence, Wetlands, Forests, Fire Ecology, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain
Wildfires in the Arctic and tropical biomes: what is the relative role of climate? Engstrom, Johanna, Abbaszadeh, Peyman, Keellings, David, Deb, Proloy, Moradkhani, Hamid Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
A comprehensive characterization of MODIS daily burned area mapping accuracy across fire sizes in tropical savannas Campagnolo, M.L., Libonati, R., Rodrigues, J.A., Pereira, J.M.C. Reflectance, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Assessing expected economic losses from wildfires in eucalypt plantations of western Brazil Galizia, Luiz Felipe, Alcasena, Fermin, Prata, Gabriel, Rodrigues, Marcos Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Evaluating landscape-scale wildfire exposure in northwestern Iran Jahdi, Roghayeh, Salis, Michele, Alcasena, Fermin J., Arabi, Mahdi, Arca, Bachisio, Duce, Pierpaolo Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
System for building air patrol routes for fire-prone areas of vegetation Glagolev, Vladimir Glagolev A., Zubareva, Anna M. Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
Trends in global dependency on the Indonesian palm oil and resultant environmental impacts Shigetomi, Yosuke, Ishimura, Yuichi, Yamamoto, Yuki Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction Andela, Niels, Morton, Douglas C., Giglio, Louis, Paugam, Ronan, Chen, Yang, Hantson, Stijn, van der Werf, Guido R., Randerson, James T. Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Fire Occurrence
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