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NASA Space Apps 2026 · MODIS & VIIRS Hot Spots

25 years of fire. One consistent record.

ODLAR stitches NASA's two satellite fire archives together, builds a burning-activity calendar for every region, and shows today's risk against 25 years of history.

Today

14 Nov 2026

2,414 regions at high risk

Highest risk

Canwood No. 494

Saskatchewan (3/5) · Canada
Extreme

100%

The problem

The record is split in two

MODIS

0

years in one archive

0

satellites, 2 sensors

0

districts and provinces

0

fire detections processed

+0.0%

harmonization error (held-out years)

raw MODIS: −75%

0.00

ROC-AUC of the risk model

The fire calendar

Every region has its own fire clock

Each ring is a year, each slice a week. Season onset, peak weeks, the end of the season and unusual years are all found automatically.

Season

late June – late February

Peak period

late June – mid September

Unusual years

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Total detections per year: ODLAR's corrected record (on the VIIRS Suomi NPP scale) and the raw record (MODIS and VIIRS joined as they are)
YearHarmonized
20017775
20027125
20035850
20048142
20054581
20066038
20074139
20084290
20093969
20106858
20114908
20124240
20134761
20143456
20158290
20165415
20175862
20184651
20197824
20204344
20214533
20224052
20232047
20241866
20254050
20262802

Next 7 days

Where the risk is high right now

The short-term model combines the harmonized history with temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall and vegetation.

  • 01

    Canwood No. 494

    Saskatchewan (3/5) · Canada

    An active part of the fire season

    100%Extreme
  • 02

    Dhanbad

    Jhārkhand · India

    Fires detected in recent days

    100%Extreme
  • 03

    Wayne

    Michigan · United States

    An active part of the fire season

    100%Extreme
  • 04

    Nuer

    Ethiopia

    Fires detected in recent days

    100%Extreme
  • 05

    Agnuak

    Ethiopia

    Fires detected in recent days

    100%Extreme
  • 06

    Paschim Barddhaman

    West Bengal · India

    Fires detected in recent days

    100%Extreme

Two audiences

Depth for scientists, clarity for citizens

Scientists and agencies

Interactive map, raw vs harmonized comparison, trend analysis, a calendar for any area you draw, and data export through an open API.

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Citizens, farmers, communities

Pick your district, see the risk in plain words and get an alert when it rises. Signing up takes a minute.

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Risk is high

How it works

From satellite to alert

  1. 1

    Ingest

    NASA FIRMS (MODIS C6.1, VIIRS S-NPP / NOAA-20 / NOAA-21), NASA POWER weather, NDVI, Open-Meteo forecasts.

  2. 2

    Harmonize

    Quantile mapping per region and season, conditional bias correction, and block-bootstrap uncertainty.

  3. 3

    Calendar

    Season onset, peak weeks, critical windows and unusual years, all on one consistent record.

  4. 4

    Predict

    LightGBM: a calibrated probability for the next 7 days, a 13-week season outlook, and the reasons behind each.

Why now

The window to stitch the archive is closing

The overlap period, when both sensors fly at once, is the only basis for calibration. Once it ends, building one consistent archive gets much harder.

Suomi NPP stopped2 November 2026 · bridged via NOAA-20
MODIS switches off2027 (Terra Feb, Aqua Sep)
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One fire history for the Land of Fire.

Built for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026.

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Data sources

NASA FIRMS, NASA POWER, Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap, geoBoundaries, OpenFreeMap

ODLAR is not an official warning service. In an emergency call 112.