Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) - Experimental ; CIMSS

July 2026: The UW campus has an ongoing chilled water disruption that will limit SSEC datacenter cooling and could lead to data outages with no warning. Please consider accessing NGFS detections and satellite imagery through the NOAA/NESDIS Wildland Fire Data Portal: https://fire.data.nesdis.noaa.gov/map/

NGFS Real-time Notifications Reports

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Disclaimer: The Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) website is hosted and populated at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin. While reliability is quite high, outages, including unannounced outages, will occasionally occur. Outages may include, but are not limited to, any of the following: website offline, specific sensor processing to cease, email and/or text message distribution outages, database outages, computer malfunction, etc. While every effort is made to correct problems as soon as they arise, the SSEC is not staffed 24/7. As such, any user implicitly agrees to use the services and data available through this website as is with no warranty issued or implied and should be used for informational purposes only. Any use of this data for decision making processes is done at the sole risk of the end user.

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