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fire_emissions_v4_R1_1293·v4.1·dataset

How much smoke and gas wildfires released worldwide

Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 4.1 (GFEDv4)
atmosphere NASA ORNL_CLOUD Level 4 multiple
In plain English

What it measures. Monthly estimates of how much land burned worldwide and how much smoke and gas that burning released, broken down by the type of fire. It covers a long list of pollutants and gases, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and fine soot particles (PM2.5).

How it's made. It blends satellite observations with models, gridded into roughly 25-km cells covering the globe from 1995 through 2016.

How & where you'd use it. Useful for tracking the air-quality and climate impact of wildfires, comparing fire seasons across regions and years, and feeding emissions numbers into climate and pollution studies.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › AEROSOLS › CARBONACEOUS AEROSOLSATMOSPHERE › AIR QUALITY › NITROGEN OXIDESATMOSPHERE › AIR QUALITY › PARTICULATESATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS › HYDROGEN CYANIDEATMOSPHERE › AIR QUALITY › EMISSIONSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS › NON-METHANE HYDROCARBONS/VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDSATMOSPHERE › AEROSOLS › PARTICULATE MATTERBIOSPHERE › ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS › FIRE ECOLOGY › FIRE OCCURRENCEATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › NITROGEN COMPOUNDS › NITROGEN OXIDESATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › SULFUR COMPOUNDS › SULFUR DIOXIDEATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1995-06-01 → 2016-12-31
  • Measured byMODELS (Computer) · TRMM (VIIRS) · Terra (MODIS) · ERS-1 (ATSR)
  • Processing levelLevel 4
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • Formatsmultiple
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

This dataset provides global estimates of monthly burned area, monthly emissions and fractional contributions of different fire types, daily or 3-hourly fields to scale the monthly emissions to higher temporal resolutions, and data for monthly biosphere fluxes. The data are at 0.25-degree latitude by 0.25-degree longitude spatial resolution and are available from June 1995 through 2016, depending on the dataset. Emissions data are available for carbon (C), dry matter (DM), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), hydrogen (H2), nitrous oxide (N2O), nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), organic carbon (OC), black carbon (BC), particulate matter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5), total particulate matter (TPM), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) among others. These data are yearly totals by region, globally, and by fire source for each region.

Get the data

fire_emissions_v4_r1_1293_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="fire_emissions_v4_R1_1293",
    version="4.1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from ORNL_CLOUD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.