Satellite Fire Detection API - NASA FIRMS Active Fires

Active fires and thermal anomalies detected by NASA FIRMS satellites (VIIRS, MODIS) within hours: latitude, longitude, fire radiative power, brightness, confidence, satellite and time, for any bounding box or the world. Useful for monitoring sites and supply chains.

$0.08 per 1,000 rows

What it returns

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/satellite-fire-detection/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

Field	Type	Description
`bbox`	string	minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat or world; default continental US
`days`	integer	1 to 5
`source`	string: VIIRS_SNPP_NRT, VIIRS_NOAA20_NRT, VIIRS_NOAA21_NRT, MODIS_NRT	Sensor product Default: `"VIIRS_SNPP_NRT"`.
`minFrp`	number	Filter small detections
`highConfidenceOnly`	boolean	Drop low-confidence detections Default: `false`.
`maxItems`	integer	Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: `100`.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/satellite-fire-detection/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"bbox": "-125,24,-66,50", "days": 1, "maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.08 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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