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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: 2026-05-24

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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Highly anomalous fire emissions from the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires Li, Fangjun, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Kondragunta, Shobha Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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
Detecting low-intensity fires in east asia using viirs dataAn improved contextual algorithm Zhang, Ning, Sun, Lin, Sun, Zhendong, Qu, Yu Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Droughts and heatwaves in the Western MediterraneanImpact on vegetation and wildfires using the coupled WRF-ORCHIDEE regional model (RegIPSL) Guion, Antoine, Turquety, Solene, Polcher, Jan, Pennel, Romain, Bastin, Sophie, Arsouze, Thomas Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar)
Estimates of temporal-spatial variability of wildfire danger across the Justino, Flavio, Bromwich, David, Wilson, Aaron, Silva, Alex, Avila-Diaz, Alvaro, Fernandez, Alfonso, Rodrigues, Jackson Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Numerical investigation of atmosphere-fire interactions during high-impact wildland fire events in Greece Kartsios, Stergios, Karacostas, Theodore, Pytharoulis, Ioannis, Dimitrakopoulos, Alexandros P. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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
Increasing fire and logging disturbances in Siberian boreal forestsA case study of the Angara region Shvetsov, Evgeny G, Kukavskaya, Elena A, Shestakova, Tatiana A, Laflamme, Jocelyne, Rogers, Brendan M Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Surface Water Features
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
Local emission and long-range transport impacts on the CO, CO2, and CH4 concentrations at a tropical rural site Jain, Chaithanya D., Singh, Vikas, Akhil Raj, S.T., Madhavan, B.L., Ratnam, M. Venkat Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Tropopause, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Surface Pressure, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature
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
Understanding agricultural fire dynamics in the southern Yucatan Peninsular Region using the MODIS (C6) active fire product Pagan, Andrew, Rogan, John, Schmook, Birgit, Christman, Zachary, Sangermano, Florencia Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
The outflow of Asian biomass burning carbonaceous aerosol into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in springRadiative effects seen in a global model Chavan, Prashant, Fadnavis, Suvarna, Chakroborty, Tanusri, Sioris, Christopher E., Griessbach, Sabine, Muller, Rolf Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
How emissions uncertainty influences the distribution and radiative impacts of smoke from fires in North America Carter, Therese S., Heald, Colette L., Jimenez, Jose L., Campuzano-Jost, Pedro, Kondo, Yutaka, Moteki, Nobuhiro, Schwarz, Joshua P., Wiedinmyer, Christine, Darmenov, Anton S., da Silva, Arlindo M., Kaiser, Johannes W. Population Size, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Diagnosing spatial biases and uncertainties in global fire emissions inventoriesIndonesia as regional case study Liu, Tianjia, Mickley, Loretta J., Marlier, Miriam E., DeFries, Ruth S., Khan, Md Firoz, Latif, Mohd Talib, Karambelas, Alexandra Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Reflectance, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Burned Area
Estimating wildfire fuel consumption with multitemporal airborne laser scanning data and demonstrating linkage with MODIS-derived fire radiative energy McCarley, T. Ryan, Hudak, Andrew T., Sparks, Aaron M., Vaillant, Nicole M., Meddens, Arjan J.H., Trader, Laura, Mauro, Francisco, Kreitler, Jason, Boschetti, Luigi Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Influence of satellite sensor pixel size and overpass time on undercounting of cerrado/savannah landscape-scale fire radiative power (FRP)An assessment using the MODIS airborne simulator Sperling, Samuel, Wooster, Martin J., Malamud, Bruce D. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products Wickramasinghe, Chathura, Wallace, Luke, Reinke, Karin, Jones, Simon Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
A review on early forest fire detection systems using optical remote sensing Barmpoutis, Panagiotis, Papaioannou, Periklis, Dimitropoulos, Kosmas, Grammalidis, Nikos Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Accuracy and spatiotemporal distribution of fire in the Brazilian biomes from the MODIS burned-area products Santana, Nickolas Castro, de Carvalho, Osmar Abilio, Gomes, Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso, Guimaraes, Renato Fontes Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Burned Area
Satellite-based fire progression mappingA comprehensive assessment for large fires in Northern California Scaduto, Erica, Chen, Bin, Jin, Yufang Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Satellite monitoring of the wildfire in Siberia and fire emissions estimation Ponomarev, E.I., Litvintsev, K.Yu., Ponomareva, T.V., Shvetsov, E.G., Yakimov, N.D. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Persistent fire foci in all biomes undermine the Paris Agreement in Brazil da Silva Junior, Carlos Antonio, Teodoro, Paulo Eduardo, Delgado, Rafael Coll, Teodoro, Larissa Pereira Ribeiro, Lima, Mendelson, de Andrea Pantaleao, Ariane, Baio, Fabio Henrique Rojo, de Azevedo, Gileno Brito, de Oliveira Sousa Azevedo, Glauce Tais, Capristo-Silva, Guilherme Fernando, Arvor, Damien, Facco, Cassiele Uliana Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Land Surface Temperature, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Rapid recent deforestation incursion in a vulnerable indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon and fire-driven emissions of fine particulate aerosol pollutants de Oliveira, Gabriel, Chen, Jing M., Mataveli, Guilherme A. V., Chaves, Michel E. D., Seixas, Hugo T., Cardozo, Francielle da S., Shimabukuro, Yosio E., He, Liming, Stark, Scott C., dos Santos, Carlos A. C. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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