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Title: Northern and Central Africa - VIIRS Active Fire Detections
Description: Near-real-time active fire and thermal anomaly detections from NASA's [Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)](https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire/) covering **Northern and Central Africa**, derived from the **VIIRS** sensor family (Suomi-NPP since 2011, NOAA-20 since 2017, NOAA-21 since 2022). Each resource is an external link directly to a NASA-hosted file. The files are continuously updated as new satellite overpasses are processed (typically within 3 hours of acquisition). **Formats:** SHP, KML, CSV **Time windows:** Last 24h, 48h, 7d
Creator: NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)
Publisher: Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage: 2012-01-20 to *
Date Issued: 2026-05-13
Access Rights: Public
Date Added: May 29, 2026
Provenance Statement: The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2026-05-29.

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NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) (2026). Northern and Central Africa - VIIRS Active Fire Detections. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/444f90e7-140a-4c30-bf95-5917e3be18d5 (dataset)
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