The Fire Events Data Suite (FEDS) uses remotely-sensed fire hotspots to generate near-real-time estimates of fire behavior. FEDS provides fire perimeters, estimates of the active fire line, and mean radiative power for the fire. FEDS data helps scientists understand how fires evolve and spread through time. FEDS tracks fire in the continental United States and Canada. FEDS has been used to support NASA Disaster’s response to the Palisades fire, and featured in stories on the Park fire in CA, and the 2023 Canadian wildfire season.
You can see FEDS fire perimeters on NASA’s Fire Information Resource Management System, or access the data through an API.
FEDS was developed by collaborators at University of California, Irvine, and the citation describing the algorithm is:
Chen, Y., Hantson, S., Andela, N., Coffield, S. R., Graff, C. A., Morton, D. C., Ott, L. E., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Smyth, P., Goulden, M. L., & Randerson, J. T. (2022). California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system. Scientific Data, 9(1), Article 1.