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🔥 Active Wildfires

Real-time wildfire tracking using NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET v3). Satellite-confirmed fires from InciWeb, USGS, NOAA, and ESA Copernicus are rendered as pulsing fire sprites on a globe.gl WebGL globe. Filter by geographic region and click any event for name, date, region, and a direct link to the source agency report.

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Active Wildfires

What you'll see

  • ✓NASA EONET v3 — satellite-confirmed active wildfire events globally
  • ✓Fire sprite WebGL rendering with pulsing opacity animation
  • ✓7 geographic regions with per-region colour coding
  • ✓Click for event name, region, date, and source agency link
  • ✓15-minute cache refresh aligned to NASA update cadence
  • ✓No API key required — NASA open data

Tags

WildfiresNASA EONETNatural HazardsReal-timeWebGLGeoJSON

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