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Description

The MOD14A1 Version 6 data product was decommissioned on July 31, 2023. Users are encouraged to use the MOD14A1 Version 6.1 data product.

The Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Thermal Anomalies and Fire Daily (MOD14A1) Version 6 data are generated every eight days at 1 kilometer (km) spatial resolution as a Level 3 product. MOD14A1 contains eight consecutive days of fire data conveniently packaged into a single file.

The Science Dataset (SDS) layers include the fire mask, pixel quality indicators, maximum fire radiative power (MaxFRP), and the position of the fire pixel within the scan. Each layer consists of daily per pixel information for each of the eight days of data acquisition.

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
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Sinusoidal Tiling System
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-18 to 2023-02-17
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
C2763298073-LPCLOUD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
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). MOD14A1 MODIS/Terra Thermal Anomalies/Fire Daily L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V006 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD14A1.006 Date Accessed: 2026-05-13

File Naming Convention

MOD14A1.A2002273.h24v07.006.2015057061424.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD14A1) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2002273), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h24v07), the Version of the data collection (006), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2015057061424), and the Data Format (hdf).

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Publications Citing This Dataset

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Detecting and quantifying residue burning in smallholder systemsAn integrated approach using Sentinel-2 data Deshpande, Monish Vijay, Pillai, Dhanyalekshmi, Jain, Meha Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Correlates of geoxyle diversity in Afrotropical grasslands Meller, Paulina, Stellmes, Marion, Fidelis, Alessandra, Finckh, Manfred Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Next day wildfire spread: A machine learning dataset to predict wildfire spreading from remote-sensing data Huot, Fantine, Hu, R. Lily, Goyal, Nita, Sankar, Tharun, Ihme, Matthias, Chen, Yi-Fan Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Plant Phenology
Leveraging NASA soil moisture active passive for assessing fire susceptibility and potential impacts over Australia and California Sazib, Nazmus, Bolten, John D., Mladenova, Iliana E. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Sensitivity of biomass burning emissions estimates to land surface information Saito, Makoto, Shiraishi, Tomohiro, Hirata, Ryuichi, Niwa, Yosuke, Saito, Kazuyuki, Steinbacher, Martin, Worthy, Doug, Matsunaga, Tsuneo Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Significant light absorption of brown carbon during the 2020 California wildfires Cho, Chaeyoon, Kim, Sang-Woo, Choi, Woosuk, Kim, Man-Hae Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Regional-scale fire severity mapping of Eucalyptus forests with the Landsat archive Dixon, Dan J., Callow, J. Nikolaus, Duncan, John M.A., Setterfield, Samantha A., Pauli, Natasha Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Spatiotemporal dynamics and climate influence of forest fires in Fujian Province, China Zeng, Aicong, Yang, Song, Zhu, He, Tigabu, Mulualem, Su, Zhangwen, Wang, Guangyu, Guo, Futao 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
Utilization of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery for Improving Burnt Area Mapping Accuracy Nolde, Michael, Plank, Simon, Riedlinger, Torsten Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Reflectance, Burned Area
Intraseasonal variability of greenhouse gas emission factors from Vernooij, Roland, Giongo, Marcos, Borges, Marco Assis, Costa, Maximo Menezes, Barradas, Ana Carolina Sena, van der Werf, Guido R. Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Identifying the density of grassland fire points with kernel density estimation based on spatial distribution characteristics Shuo, Zhen, Jingyu, Zhang, Zhengxiang, Zhang, Jianjun, Zhao Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Global search for temporal shifts in fire activity: Potential human influence on southwest Russia and north Australia fire seasons Liu, Tianjia, Mickley, Loretta J, McCarty, Jessica L Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Degradation of the Brazilian CerradoInteractions with human disturbance and environmental variables Lopes dos Santos, Gilsonley, Pereira, Marcos Gervasio, Delgado, Rafael Coll, Magistrali, Iris Cristiane, Gomes da Silva, Claudio, Magno Moreira de Oliveira, Carlos, Pedro Bessa Larangeira, Joao, Paula da Silva, Tiago Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, Indiapotential drivers and consequences for air quality Liu, Tianjia, Mickley, Loretta J, Gautam, Ritesh, Singh, Manoj K, DeFries, Ruth S, Marlier, Miriam E Reflectance, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Drivers of timberline dynamics in rodna montains, northern carpathians, romania, over the last 131 years Mihaila, Dumitru, Bistricean, Petrut-Ionel, Horodnic, Vasilica-Danut Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Effects of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic on air quality at Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine Arregoces, Heli A., Rojano, Roberto, Restrepo, Gloria Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Evaluating accuracy of four MODIS-derived burned area products for tropical peatland and non-peatland fires Vetrita, Yenni, Cochrane, Mark A, Suwarsono, Priyatna, Muhammad, Sukowati, Kusumaning A D, Khomarudin, Muhammad R Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Estimation of carbon dioxide emissions from the megafires of Australia in 20192020 Shiraishi, Tomohiro, Hirata, Ryuichi Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Estimation of Field-Level NOx Emissions from Crop Residue Burning Using Shen, Yonglin, Jiang, Changmin, Chan, Ka Lok, Hu, Chuli, Yao, Ling Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds
Direct radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosols from the extensive Australian wildfires in 2019-2020 Chang, Dong Yeong, Yoon, Jongmin, Lelieveld, Johannes, Park, Seon Ki, Yum, Seong Soo, Kim, Jhoon, Jeong, Sujong Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Albedo, Anisotropy, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Daily PM2. 5 concentration estimates by county, ZIP code, and census tract in 11 western states 20082018 Reid, Colleen E., Considine, Ellen M., Maestas, Melissa M., Li, Gina Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Missing Burns in the High Northern Latitudes: The Case for Regionally Chen, Dong, Shevade, Varada, Baer, Allison, Loboda, Tatiana V. Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Year-long concurrent max-doas observations of nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde at pune: Understanding diurnal and seasonal variation drivers Biswas, Mriganka Sekhar, Mahajan, Anoop S. Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
Spatial accessibility of anthropogenic fire ignition sources of grassland fire in northeast China Zhang, Zhengxiang, Li, Jianjie, Yu, Shan, Zhao, Jianjun Fire Occurrence, Surface Thermal Properties, Land Surface Temperature, THERMAL ANOMALIES
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