• FIRMS will be featured during NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) upcoming online webinar series. The Spanish webinar series is scheduled for July, 2025. This will be updated with more information when it is available.
  • NOAA's GOES-19 satellite replaced GOES-16 as GOES-East on 2025-04-07, and the data in FIRMS has been updated to reflect this change. Information on the replacement is available here .
  • The Non-NASA Filtered Geostationary Himawari active fire detections data available through FIRMS are now from Himawari-9.
  • Naming of satellites in FIRMS Attributes: To be consistent with the official naming of satellites, the following attributes have been updated as follows: N20 which refers to NOAA-20 (instead of 1 which referred to J1/NOAA-20); N21 which refers to NOAA-21 (and instead of 2 which referred to J2/NOAA-21).
  • NOAA-21 (JPSS-2) Fires and Thermal Anomalies are now available.
  • Webinar: Discover Enhanced Wildfire System Capabilities with NASA's FIRMS
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  • Fire Data Academy: Explore Python code examples for FIRMS fire data analysis
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  • Real-Time data for the US and Canada added to FIRMS
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  • Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel Imagery available for burned area
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