Hot or Not

Is this place burning more than usual?

Choose a place

Uses a mouse or touch screen. From the keyboard it opens the coordinates form.

Worth a look

Hot or not?

Why comparable?

VIIRS sees smaller fires than MODIS, so each VIIRS detection is weighted to count as MODIS would have. That puts 2000 and today on one scale. The full method shows how, and how well it works.

Map

Fires on the map

Month by month

What the colors show

Numbers behind this calendar

The table appears with the calendar.