Achieve a greener and safer future, avoid forest damage and reduce air pollution with this accurate service that is designed to help users estimate the current and forecast danger of fire.
Having combined our technical expertise with our vision for a greener future, we are thrilled to announce our new Fire Weather Index product - designed to help users to estimate current and forecast fire danger.
5 days
Forecast
Global
Coverage
Daily
Data step
Fire Weather Index is a numerical rating of the potential frontal fire intensity and indicates fire intensity by combining the rate of fire spread with the amount of fuel being consumed.
Forests provide one of the most important carbon sinks to mitigate climate change. With increasing global temperatures, forests and other wooded areas are becoming more susceptible to wildfires. These fires release carbon into the atmosphere, exacerbating the effects of climate change, damaging forest ecosystems, and creating dangerous levels of air pollution. The worst forest fires this century were witnessed is 2021, causing 9.3 million hectares of tree cover loss globally.
Fire Weather Index
The API allows getting the numerical values of the fire weather index which is accounting the effects of fuel moisture and weather conditions on fire behaviour.
Current fire index and forecast for 5 days ahead
Apart from particular index value, it is classified in 6 classes of danger according to the European Forest Fire Information System.
Fire Weather Maps
The Fire Weather Maps API is a visual display of the Fire Weather Index API and helps users to build your own interactive maps.
Maps support current fire index and forecast for 5 days ahead.