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Natural Hazards Data Access and Tools

From discovery to visualization, data tools such as the SEDAC Hazards Mapper and NASA's Flooding Days Projection Tool guide users in making the most of natural hazards data.

Natural Hazards Datasets

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Dataset Sort descending	Version	Platform	Instrument	Temporal Extent	Spatial Extent	Spatial Resolution	Data Format
U.S. Population Grids (Summary File 1), 2000: Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area, Alpha Version	alpha	MODELS	Computer	2000-04-01	N: 31 S: 28 E: -94 W: -97		Grid, PDF, PNG
U.S. Population Grids (Summary File 1), 2000: New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area, Alpha Version	alpha	MODELS	Computer	2000-04-01	N: 31 S: 28 E: -88 W: -91		Grid, PDF, PNG
U.S. Population Grids (Summary File 3), 2000: Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Alpha Version	alpha	MODELS	Computer	2000-04-01	N: 36 S: 28 E: -84 W: -95		Grid
VIIRS/JPSS1+JPSS2 Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 1-day CS GeoTIFF	2	NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi-NPP	VIIRS	2026-03-04 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	250 Meters x 250 Meters	GeoTIFF
VIIRS/JPSS1+JPSS2 Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 1-day GeoTIFF	2	NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi-NPP	VIIRS	2026-03-04 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	250 Meters x 250 Meters	GeoTIFF
VIIRS/JPSS1+JPSS2 Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 2-day GeoTIFF	2	NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi-NPP	VIIRS	2026-03-04 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	250 Meters x 250 Meters	GeoTIFF
VIIRS/JPSS1+JPSS2 Global Flood Product L3 NRT 250m 3-day GeoTIFF	2	NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi-NPP	VIIRS	2026-03-04 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	250 Meters x 250 Meters	GeoTIFF
VIIRS/NPP Burned Area Monthly L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V001	001	Suomi-NPP	VIIRS	2014-01-01 to 2019-01-01	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	500 Meters x 500 Meters	HDF-EOS5
VIIRS/NPP Burned Area Monthly L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V002	002	Suomi-NPP	VIIRS	2012-03-01 to Present	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	500 Meters x 500 Meters	HDF-EOS5
Yale Center for Earth Observation (YCEO) Surface Urban Heat Islands, Version 4, 2003-2018	4.00	MODELS	Computer	2003-01-01 to 2018-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		GeoTIFF, Shapefile

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Discover Enhanced Wildfire System Capabilities with NASA's FIRMS

Learn how to use NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) and its enhanced User Interface that provides additional services and analysis capabilities for wildfire management.

This screen capture from NASA Worldview shows the locations of widespread thermal anomalies and smoke haze in Thailand and neighboring Cambodia.

FIRMS Helps Thai Officials Manage Fire and Smoke Haze

Geographer Veerachai Tanpipat promotes the use of NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) throughout the Lower Mekong River Region.

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NASA FIRMS Helps Fight Wildland Fires in Near Real-Time

NASA’s worldwide Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides vital near real-time tools for managing wildland fires.

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True color corrected reflectance image of fires blazing across Canada on 17 July 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite

Canadian Wildfires

Image captured on July 17, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.

Natural Hazards Data Tools

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Tool Sort descending	Description	Services
SOTO	State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans.	Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
TESViS	The Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services Global Subsets Tool provides on-demand, customized subsets of several terrestrial ecology data products.	Visualization, Subsetting
VEDA	NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities.	Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
Vertex	Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.	Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting

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