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Thomas Fire Peak Burning Intensity (2017)

Maximum Fire Radiative Power for Thomas Fire
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map of the strongest heat energy released along the fire line of California's 2017 Thomas Fire, measured for each 12-hour segment, showing where the fire burned most fiercely.

How it's made. Made from satellite Fire Radiative Power readings, which gauge how much heat a fire emits as seen from space.

How & where you'd use it. Helps fire managers understand where a wildfire was most intense to guide response and post-fire assessment.

What's measured

frpmaxthomasfire

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2017-12-01 → 2017-12-31
  • Spatial extent-119.728, 34.196, -118.887, 34.727
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

Maximum Fire Radiative Power per 12hr fire line segment for Thomas fire of 2017

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("frp-max-thomasfire")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).