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Description

The MOD14 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MOD14 Version 6.1 data product.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire MOD14 Version 6 product is produced daily in 5-minute temporal satellite increments (swaths). The MOD14 product is used to generate all of the higher level fire products, but can also be used to identify fires and other thermal anomalies, such as volcanoes. Each swath of data is approximately 2,030 kilometers along track (long), and 2,300 kilometers across track (wide).

Known Issues

  • Known issues are described on the MODIS Land Quality Assessment website and in Section 7.2 of the User Guide which covers Pre-November 2000 Data Quality, Detection Confidence, Flagging of Static Sources, and the August 2020 MODIS Aqua Outage

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6 thermal anomalies and fire  data products: (1) Refinements to internal cloud mask, which sometimes flags heavy smoke as clouds, (2) Fix for frequent false alarms occurring in the Amazon that are caused by small (~1 km²) clearings within forests, (3) Fix to correct a bug that causes incorrect assessment of cloud and water pixels adjacent to fire pixels near the scan edge, (4) Detect small fires using dynamic thresholding, (5) Process ocean and coastline pixels to detect fire from oil rigs, and (6) The Version 6 fire mask has the potential to detect fire over water pixels. Therefore, class 3 pixel values have been changed to be classified as “non-fire water pixels”.

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
1000 Meters x 1000 Meters
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-24 to 2023-02-18
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) ,
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
C2763298065-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Fire Occurrence ,
Surface Thermal Properties ,
Land Surface Temperature ,
THERMAL ANOMALIES

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Giglio, L., & Justice, C. (2015). MOD14 MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire 5-Min L2 Swath 1km V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD14.006 Date Accessed: 2026-05-08

File Naming Convention

MOD14.A2002281.2350.006.2015056111335.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD14) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002281), the Hours and Minutes of Acquisition provided as HHMM (2350), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015056111335), and the Data Format (hdf).

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An investigation of the impact of Canadian wildfires on US air quality using model, satellite, and ground measurements Xue, Zhixin, Udaysankar, Nair, Christopher, Sundar A. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
Biomass burning emission analysis based on MODIS aerosol optical depth and AeroCom multi-model simulations: implications for model constraints and emission ... Petrenko, Mariya, Kahn, Ralph, Chin, Mian, Bauer, Susanne E., Bergman, Tommi, Bian, Huisheng, Curci, Gabriele, Johnson, Ben, Kaiser, Johannes W., Kipling, Zak, Kokkola, Harri, Liu, Xiaohong, Mezuman, Keren, Mielonen, Tero, Myhre, Gunnar, Pan, Xiaohua, Protonotariou, Anna, Remy, Samuel, Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt, Stier, Philip, Takemura, Toshihiko, Tsigaridis, Kostas, Wang, Hailong, Watson-Parris, Duncan, Zhang, Kai Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Infrared Radiance, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance, Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Increase in carbon monoxide (CO) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) observed by satellites in the Northern Hemisphere over the summers of 20082023, linked to an ... Ehret, Antoine, Turquety, Solene, George, Maya, Hadji-Lazaro, Juliette, Clerbaux, Cathy Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
Comprehensive chemical profile and source apportionment of Lichtig, Pablo, Gelman Constantin, Julian, Diaz Resquin, Melisa, Baraldo Victorica, Facundo, Alessandrello, Diego, Gomez, Dario, Rossler, Cristina, de Oto, Marcelo, Espada Guerrero, Ramiro, Bajano, Hector, Bajano, Facundo, Herrera-Murillo, Jorge, Dawidowski, Laura Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Infrared Radiance, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance
Evaluation of black carbon emission inventories over Indian subcontinent: Role of open biomass burning and its representation in emission fluxes Arora, Akanksha, Gadhavi, H., Ramachandran, S., Rajesh, T.A. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Comparing Next-Day Wildfire Predictability of MODIS and VIIRS Satellite Data Karlsson, Justus, Xu, Yonghao, Berg, Amanda, Haglund, Leif Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Infrared Radiance, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance, Attitude Characteristics, ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS, Viewing Geometry
Long-term changes in the thermodynamic structure of the lowermost stratosphere inferred from reanalysis data Weyland, Franziska, Hoor, Peter, Kunkel, Daniel, Birner, Thomas, Ploger, Felix, Turhal, Katharina Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
Siberian wildfire smoke observations from space-based multi-angle Junghenn Noyes, Katherine T., Kahn, Ralph A. Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), Geopotential Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Upper Air Temperature, Vertical Profiles, U/V Wind Components, Ozone Profiles, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Active fire-based dating accuracy for Landsat burned area maps is high in boreal and Mediterranean biomes and low in grasslands and savannas Neves, Alana K., Pereira, Jose M.C., Silva, Joao M.N., Catarino, Silvia, Oliva, Patricia, Chuvieco, Emilio, Campagnolo, Manuel L. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Improved estimates of smoke exposure during Australia fire seasons: importance of quantifying plume injection heights Feng, Xu, Mickley, Loretta J., Bell, Michelle L., Liu, Tianjia, Fisher, Jenny A., Val Martin, Maria Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Long-Term Satellite Monitoring of Various Types of Wildfires and Wildfire-Induced Emissions of Climate-Active Gases and Aerosols in Russia and in Its Large Regions Bondur, V. G., Zima, A. L., Feoktistova, N. V. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Simultaneous Monitoring of Wildfire and Smoke Using Geostationary Satellite Infrared Channel Observations Lee, Kwon-Ho, Kim, Kwanchul, Lee, Dasom, Ha, Jong-Sung, Kim, Heeseob Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Satellite Multi-Angle Observations of Wildfire Smoke Plumes During the Noyes, K. T. Junghenn, Kahn, R. A. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Reflectance
A Landsat-based atlas of monthly burned area for Portugal, 19842021 Neves, Alana K., Campagnolo, Manuel L., Silva, Joao M.N., Pereira, Jose M.C. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
A model for expressing industrial information based on object-oriented industrial heat sources detected using multi-source thermal anomaly data in China Ma, Caihong, Yang, Jin, Xia, Wei, Liu, Jianbo, Zhang, Yifan, Sui, Xin Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Canadian and Alaskan wildfire smoke particle properties, their evolution, and controlling factors, from satellite observations Junghenn Noyes, Katherine T., Kahn, Ralph A., Limbacher, James A., Li, Zhanqing Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Geopotential Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Upper Air Temperature, Vertical Profiles, U/V Wind Components, Ozone Profiles, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Estimating NH<inf>3</inf> and PM<inf>2.5</inf> emissions from the Australia mega wildfires and the impact of plume transport on air quality in Australia and New Zealand Akdemir, Ece Ari, Battye, William H., Myers, Casey Bray, Aneja, Viney P. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Open biomass burning emissions and their contribution to ambient formaldehyde in Guangdong province, China Zhang, Chunlin, Li, Jiangyong, Zhao, Wenlong, Yao, Qian, Wang, Hao, Wang, Boguang Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Remote sensing mapping of peat-fire-burnt areasIdentification among other wildfires Sirin, Andrey, Medvedeva, Maria Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The New Transamazonian Highway: BR-319 and Its Current Environmental Degradation Lima, Mendelson, Santana, Dthenifer Cordeiro, Junior, Ismael Cavalcante Maciel, Costa, Patricia Monique Crivelari da, Oliveira, Pedro Paulo Gomes de, Azevedo, Raul Pio de, Silva, Rogerio de Souza, Marinho, Ubiranei de Freitas, Silva, Valdinete da, Souza, Juliana Aparecida Arantes de, Rossi, Fernando Saragosa, Delgado, Rafael Coll, Teodoro, Larissa Pereira Ribeiro, Teodoro, Paulo Eduardo, Silva Junior, Carlos Antonio da Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
2019-20 Australian Bushfires and Anomalies in Carbon Monoxide Surface John, Shyno Susan, Deutscher, Nicholas M., Paton-Walsh, Clare, Velazco, Voltaire A., Jones, Nicholas B., Griffith, David W. T. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Dynamics, Surface Radiative Properties
A comprehensive characterization of MODIS daily burned area mapping accuracy across fire sizes in tropical savannas Campagnolo, M.L., Libonati, R., Rodrigues, J.A., Pereira, J.M.C. Reflectance, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Burned Area, Fire Dynamics, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Validation of MODIS and AVHRR fire detections in Australia Forghani, A., Thankappan, M., Cechet, B. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Insights into the aging of biomass burning aerosol from satellite observations and 3D atmospheric modeling: evolution of the aerosol optical properties in ... Konovalov, Igor B., Golovushkin, Nikolai A., Beekmann, Matthias, Andreae, Meinrat O. Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance
Inter-annual and seasonal variations in optical and physical characteristics of columnar aerosols over the Pokhara Valley in the Himalayan foothills Ramachandran, S., Rupakheti, Maheswar Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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Variables

The table below lists the variables contained within a single granule for this dataset. Variables often contain observed or derived geophysical measurements collected from a variety of sources, including remote sensing instruments on satellite and airborne platforms, field campaigns, in situ measurements, and model outputs. The terms variable, parameter, scientific data set, layer, and band have been used across NASA’s Earth science disciplines; however, variable is the designated nomenclature in NASA’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR). Variable metadata attributes such as Name, Description, Units, Data Type, Fill Value, Valid Range, and Scale Factor allow users to efficiently process and analyze the data. The full range of attributes may not be applicable to all variables. Additional information on variable attributes is typically available in the data, user guide, and/or other product documentation.

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Name Description Units Data Type Fill Value Valid Range Scale Factor Offset
Algorthm QA Pixel Quality Indicators Bit Field uint32 4 0 to 4294966531 N/A N/A
CMG_night Night flag N/A uint16 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Fire Mask Confidence of fire Class Flag uint8 0 1 to 9 N/A N/A
FP_AdjCloud Number of adjacent cloud pixels N/A uint8 N/A 0 to 8 N/A N/A
FP_AdjWater Number of adjacent water pixels N/A uint8 N/A 0 to 8 N/A N/A
FP_CMG_col CMG column N/A int16 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_CMG_row CMG row N/A int16 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_confidence Detection confidence estimate Percent uint8 N/A 1 to 100 N/A N/A
FP_land Land flag (0 = water pixel; 1 = land pixel) N/A uint8 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_latitude Latitude at center of fire pixel Degree float32 N/A -90 to 90 N/A N/A
FP_line Granule line of fire pixel N/A int16 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_longitude Longitude at center of fire pixel Degree float32 N/A -180 to 180 N/A N/A
FP_MAD_DT Background brightness temperature difference mean absolute deviation Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MAD_R2 Background channel 2 reflectance mean absolute deviation N/A float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MAD_T21 Background channel 21/22 brightness temperature mean absolute deviation Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MAD_T31 Background channel 31 brightness temperature mean absolute deviation Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MeanDT Background brightness temperature difference Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MeanR2 Background channel 2 reflectance N/A float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MeanT21 Background channel 21/22 brightness temperature Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_MeanT31 Background channel 31 brightness temperature Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_NumValid Number of valid background pixels N/A int16 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_power Fire radiative power Megawatts float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_R2 Near-IR (band 2) reflectance of fire pixel (daytime only) N/A float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_RelAzAng Relative azimuth angle Degree float32 N/A -180 to 180 N/A N/A
FP_smaple Granule sample of fire pixel N/A int16 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_SolZenAng Solar zenith angle Degree float32 N/A 0 to 180 N/A N/A
FP_T21 Channel 21/22 brightness temperature of fire pixel Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_T31 Channel 31 brightness temperature of fire pixel Kelvin float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_ViewZenAng View zenith angle Degree float32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
FP_WinSize Background window size N/A uint8 N/A N/A N/A N/A
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