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Smoke plumes (NOAA HMS), last 7 days

Daily smoke plume polygons over North America for the last 7 days, drawn by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery and labelled Light, Medium or Heavy. The labels are visual density categories of smoke anywhere in the air column, not surface concentrations.

Updates
Daily
Coverage
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Current version
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Last published
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Validation
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License
CC0 1.0
Commercial use
Allowed

Files

The files of the current version, served from the API.

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Use the API

Fetch the metadata for the list of files, then any file by its path. See the docs for versions, caching and errors.

curl

# The current version and its files
curl -s "https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/smoke"

Python (polars)

import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

meta = json.load(urlopen("https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/smoke"))
for f in meta["downloads"]:
    print(f["name"], f["bytes"], f["url"])

JavaScript

const meta = await (await fetch("https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/smoke")).json();
console.log(meta.version, meta.downloads);

Schema

This dataset publishes files without a fixed column schema.

Source and license

Source
NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire and Smoke Analysis, smoke polygons
Publisher
NOAA NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations
License
CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) (CC0-1.0)
Commercial use
Allowed

Credit the source with this exact text:

NOAA NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire and Smoke Analysis.

Checked every 3 hours. If the source hasn't changed in 3 days, the status page flags it as stale.

Endpoints

Every URL for this dataset. To pin the current version, put it after the id: /v1/smoke@<version>. The API reference describes each response.

What URL
Metadata: version, coverage, downloads, validation /v1/smoke
Versions and monthly snapshots /v1/smoke/versions
One file, at the path listed in the metadata /v1/smoke/{path}