Wildland Fire Data Portal

The Wildland Fire Data Portal empowers communities through early fire detection and by sharing wildfire data sourced from NOAA satellites.

NOAA’s Wildland Fire Data Portal provides near-real-time wildfire detection and tracking using satellite data. The goal is to reduce wildfire impacts and protect lives and property.

To make this fire data more accessible and user-friendly, NOAA developed a new tool for the portal called the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS). NGFS quickly analyzes large volumes of satellite data to identify heat signatures consistent with active fires. Once a fire is detected, the system tracks and records its spread and intensity. This fire data are then made available through the portal to weather forecasters, fire dispatchers, and first responders. 

NGFS can detect some fires faster than ground-based systems alone. This early detection has helped prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. NGFS also provides imagery and analytical tools that inform firefighting efforts and resource management.

What’s Next In Public-Accessed Data

The Wildland Fire Data Portal is one of the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF)-based portals designed to expand public access to NOAA’s environmental data. NOAA’s Space Weather Portal (SPOT) is another NCCF-based portal, which launched in 2025. SPOT provides cloud-based access to space weather data.