Sow wheat straight into the straw
A Happy Seeder or Super Seeder cuts the straw and sows wheat through it in one pass — no burning needed. They need a powerful tractor, so most farmers rent rather than buy.
Live from NASA satellites
Where is India burning right now?
Satellites pass over India several times a day and spot fires from space — crop stubble, forest fires, grassland. This site turns that raw NASA data into answers anyone can use: what's burning today, when your state's fire season comes, and what you can do about the smoke.
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Fire detections, last 24 h
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Last 7 days
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Most active state (24 h)
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Satellites reporting
A “detection” is one hot spot seen by one satellite pass. The same fire can be seen by several satellites, so detections are not the same as separate fires.
Last 24 h of detections
Start with your question
01Is there fire near me?Check any place in India against today's satellite passes.→02Where is it burning today?Live map of every detection this week, state by state.→03When is fire season in my state?Eight years of data turned into a month-by-month calendar.→04Is it getting better or worse?2018 → 2025, for India, your state and each season.→05Why do the numbers not match?Two satellites count very differently — and a calculator to convert.→06What can I actually do?Practical steps for farmers, families and officials.→
01 — Live fire map
Every fire spotted from space this week
Each glowing dot is a hot spot a satellite detected. Bigger, brighter dots are stronger fires. Tap a state to see what's happening there.
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Tap a state on the map or in this list for its details.
02 — Near me
Is there fire near me?
Pick your city, use your location, or tap the map. We count the fires satellites found around that point and tell you what it means for you.
Tap anywhere on the map to move the search point. Bright = last 24 h, faded = earlier this week.
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03 — Fire seasons
Every state has a fire calendar
Fires in India aren't random — they follow harvests and dry seasons. Eight years of satellite data (2018–2025) show exactly when each state burns.
Where fires happen in
November
On average about 0 fire detections a year fall in November. Most come from
or drag
Colour bySortSatellite
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Average detections per calendar month, 2018–2025, from NASA FIRMS. Only vegetation fires are counted — factories and gas flares that glow all year are removed.
04 — Trends 2018–2025
Is it getting better or worse?
Pick a season and a state. Compare the last three years (2023–25) with the first three (2018–20) to see where burning is falling — and where it's growing.
States with fewer than 300 detections a year in this season are left out of the lists so tiny numbers don't look like big swings. Weather (rain, floods, clouds over the satellite pass) can move a single year a lot — look at the direction over several years.
05 — Why satellites disagree
Two satellites, two very different counts
MODIS (on NASA's Terra and Aqua, since 2000) sees the ground in 1 km squares. VIIRS (on Suomi NPP and NOAA-20/21) sees 375 m squares — about seven times finer. So VIIRS catches many small fires MODIS misses. Before you compare years or places, you have to account for that.
06 — Solutions
What can actually be done?
Pick who you are. Each step is practical, specific and linked to where the information comes from.
Burning is the cheapest, fastest way to clear rice straw before wheat sowing. These options keep the straw out of the fire.
Rent machines from a Custom Hiring Centre
Government-supported centres rent residue machinery by the hour or acre. Book early: demand peaks in the same two weeks after harvest (late Oct to mid Nov in Punjab and Haryana).
Spray a bio-decomposer
ICAR's Pusa decomposer is a cheap microbial spray that helps straw rot into the soil. It works best with enough time and moisture — results are mixed when the gap before sowing is short.
Ask about faster rice varieties and staggered harvests
Shorter-duration rice leaves more days before wheat sowing, so there is less pressure to burn.
07 — Data & method
Where every number comes from
All figures are calculated from NASA's public fire records. Nothing is typed in by hand — rerun the build script and every chart updates.
Sources
Archive · 2018–2025
NASA FIRMS country files for India — MODIS Collection 6.1 (Terra + Aqua, 1 km) and VIIRS 375 m Collection 2 (Suomi NPP and NOAA-20).
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/country ↗Live · last 7 days
NASA FIRMS near-real-time feeds for South Asia (NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi NPP, MODIS), refreshed by NASA a few hours after each satellite pass. This site re-checks every 30 minutes.
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire ↗State outlines
Natural Earth (public domain), simplified — for orientation, not legal boundaries.
How it was processed
- 1Read every India record for each satellite and year.
- 2Kept vegetation fires only (FIRMS type 0). Factories, gas flares and other heat sources that glow all year are dropped.
- 3Placed each detection in a state by its coordinates, and in a 0.25° square.
- 4Counted detections per day, per state per month, and per square per year — for each satellite separately, never mixed.
- 5Compared MODIS and VIIRS only on days when both reported, to measure how differently they count.
Download the processed data
daily.json ↓
Detections per day for each satellite, 2018–2025 (with night-time counts and total fire strength).
states.json ↓
Detections per state per month for each satellite, 2018–2025.
grid.json ↓
Detections in 0.25° squares (~27 km), per year and per calendar month.
meta.json ↓
Record counts, confidence levels and fire-strength histograms per satellite.
live-snapshot.json ↓
A saved copy of the last 7 days of live detections.
Detections ≠ fires
One fire can be seen by several satellites, or by the same one on two passes. Counts measure activity, not the number of separate fires.
No dot ≠ no fire
Clouds, thick smoke, tree canopy, small size, or a fire that starts and ends between passes can all hide a fire from the satellite.
Not an official record
This is an exploratory tool. For official fire data, see the Forest Survey of India and your state agencies.