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NASA FIRMS active fire detections

NASA LANCE FIRMS near-real-time active fire detections (VIIRS on Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21; MODIS C6.1; Landsat): status of the keyless 24h/48h/7d CSV files per sensor and region, the detections themselves paged by byte range and pinned to one publication, and a bounding-box query (keyed area API, or the regional files when no MAP_KEY is supplied).

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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "firms-modaps-eosdis-nasa-gov",
    capability: "wildfire-detections/fires_area",
    options: {
      area: "46.0,29.0,50.0,32.0",
      day_range: 978307200,
      limit: 2,
      source: "VIIRS_NOAA20_NRT",
    },
  },
});

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{
  "area": "46.0,29.0,50.0,32.0",
  "bbox": {
    "east": 50,
    "north": 32,
    "south": 29,
    "west": 46
  },
  "count": 2,
  "date": null,
  "day_range": 1,
  "matched": 89,
  "mode": "active_fire_file",
  "observed_at_ms": 1792355899832,
  "publication_id": "J1_VIIRS_C2_Northern_and_Central_Africa_24h.csv@91e82a45fccfb3ce29704c046d3a7bae9a307369154d6f8a18d78d70fc3b6a66",
  "published_at": "2026-10-18T19:41:42Z",
  "records": [
    {
      "acq_date": "2026-10-18",
      "acq_time": "1015",
      "acquired_at": "2026-10-18T10:15:00Z",
      "bright_t31": null,
      "bright_ti4": 340.84,
      "bright_ti5": 313.03,
      "brightness": null,
      "confidence": "low",
      "daynight": "D",
      "extra": {},
      "frp": 37.55,
      "hazard_type": "wildfire",
      "instrument": "VIIRS",
      "latitude": 29.00811,
      "longitude": 47.74698,
      "path": null,
      "publication_id": "J1_VIIRS_C2_Northern_and_Central_Africa_24h.csv@91e82a45fccfb3ce29704c046d3a7bae9a307369154d6f8a18d78d70fc3b6a66",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-18T20:38:19Z",
      "row": null,
      "satellite": "N20",
      "scan": 0.47,
      "source_record_id": "N20:2026-10-18T1015:29.00811,47.74698",
      "source_url": "https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/active_fire/noaa-20-viirs-c2/csv/J1_VIIRS_C2_Northern_and_Central_Africa_24h.csv",
      "track": 0.4,
      "version": "2.0NRT"
    },
    {
      "acq_date": "2026-10-18",
      "acq_time": "1015",
      "acquired_at": "2026-10-18T10:15:00Z",
      "bright_t31": null,
      "bright_ti4": 339.02,
      "bright_ti5": 300.11,
      "brightness": null,
      "confidence": "nominal",
      "daynight": "D",
      "extra": {},
      "frp": 6.13,
      "hazard_type": "wildfire",
      "instrument": "VIIRS",
      "latitude": 29.9444,
      "longitude": 49.68876,
      "path": null,
      "publication_id": "J1_VIIRS_C2_Northern_and_Central_Africa_24h.csv@91e82a45fccfb3ce29704c046d3a7bae9a307369154d6f8a18d78d70fc3b6a66",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-10-18T20:38:19Z",
      "row": null,
      "satellite": "N20",
      "scan": 0.4,
      "source_record_id": "N20:2026-10-18T1015:29.9444,49.68876",
      "source_url": "https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/active_fire/noaa-20-viirs-c2/csv/J1_VIIRS_C2_Northern_and_Central_Africa_24h.csv",
      "track": 0.44,
      "version": "2.0NRT"
    }
  ],
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-18T20:38:19Z",
  "source": "VIIRS_NOAA20_NRT",
  "source_url": "https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/active_fire/noaa-20-viirs-c2/csv/J1_VIIRS_C2_Northern_and_Central_Africa_24h.csv",
  "truncated": true
}

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