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/

Satellite Imagery

RealEarth Imagery

Links to RealEarth terrain-corrected satellite imagery that includes metadata for each thermal anomaly detection, animations, and pan and zoom capabilities.

Grayed out products are unavailable.

Case Study / Realtime:

GOES-19 ABI

GOES-18 ABI

CONUS

All Products
Scene Detections
- + NIFC Fire Perimeters
- + NIFC Fire Points
- + Surface Weather Observations
- + GeoColor
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Ash/Dust RGB
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Full Disk

All Products
Scene Detections
- + NIFC Fire Perimeters
- + NIFC Fire Points
- + Surface Weather Observations
- + GeoColor
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Ash/Dust RGB
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Mesoscale1

All Products
Scene Detections
- + NIFC Fire Perimeters
- + NIFC Fire Points
- + Surface Weather Observations
- + GeoColor
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Ash/Dust RGB
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)

Mesoscale2

All Products
Scene Detections
- + NIFC Fire Perimeters
- + NIFC Fire Points
- + Surface Weather Observations
- + GeoColor
- + Visible (Band 2)
- + Day Fire RGB
- + Fire Temp RGB
- + Microphysics RGB
- + Shortwave IR (Band 7)
- + Ash/Dust RGB
- + Longwave IR (Band 13)