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la-fires-hrrr-wind·dataset

Wind Gusts as the 2025 Eaton Fire Ignited

HRRR 10 Meter Wind Gusts (2025 LA Fires)
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Simulated wind gusts near ground level around the moment the Eaton Fire started on January 8, 2025, just after the Palisades Fire began that same day.

How it's made. From the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) weather model, which simulates fast-changing local conditions.

How & where you'd use it. Helps explain how strong winds drove the fires' rapid, dangerous spread.

What's measured

fireshrrrwind

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-01-08 → 2025-01-08
  • Spatial extent-134.121, 21.122, -60.891, 47.849
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Simulated 10 meter wind gusts from the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) at 02Z on January 8, 2025, around the time that the Eaton Fire ignited. The Palisades Fire had just been ignited earlier that day.

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("la-fires-hrrr-wind")
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).