The real-time fire map: the best way to follow the fire season around the world

We like summer. And it’s normal. Almost from mid-June until well into September, the days are clearly longer, we enjoy more hours of sunshine and less rain, we share vacation shifts with co-workers and long afternoons on the sun lounger, umbrella and mojito in the beach cease to seem like a distant and chimerical dream.

Just like the best of friends also has bad things, of course. The heat, which has been squeezing for weeks as if 2022 were the last summer in history.

Y the fires.

Every summer those who live in areas close to forests look at the tops of the birch and eucalyptus trees with suspicion, as if suddenly, through the art of the sun and rising temperatures, they had become long wicksdangerous, flammable and ready for the first arsonist who crosses their path, a badly extinguished buttan uncontrolled bonfire or even lightning.

A map traced with fire

Every forest fire is an environmental catastrophe and often a social drama as well. The person who writes this lives in Galicia and in 2017 he had to deal with the wave of fires that devastated hectares of forests, reduced houses to blackened foundations and even claimed several lives.

The summer of 2022 is not being an exception.

In the short month that we have been, considerable fires have already been registered in points such as Zamora, Ourense Y Caceres. And given the history of recent years and the weather so far in July, with the mercury skyrocketing, it is not unreasonable to think that they will not be the only ones.

If you want to be aware of the main outbreaks, from the largest to the one that affects only one town, NASA offers you a clear and detailed tool: a fire viewera map marked with red dots the latest incidents detected in the world.

In Spain. And also in other countries.

Each focus is marked with a red dot and allows you to locate and Appreciate your layout. An overview of the world map shows, for example, the great abundance of fires in Africa or how they affect other territories, such as the rest of Europe, South America, Asia or North America.

information is available directly on the NASA website, which allows you to consult data on the same day, the last 24 hours or even the outbreaks registered throughout the week. Your service It also offers a detailed history It helps to appreciate its evolution.

Another way to access the data is through Geamap, which has developed your own plane on a global scale drinking from the information collected by the US agency.

“The map is a service offered and produced by NASA from the data collected by the satellites. The information collected is processed very quickly and made available to the public in a few hours —details the web—. With all this we can know in a fairly objective way the approximate place where a point of fire has occurred and its magnitude”.

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