Europe’s forests are burning — seen from space

Daily NASA images (Suomi NPP) of the current fire regions: smoke plumes and red fire markers (VIIRS thermal anomalies) — the same data source that feeds the FireWatch map. Pick a region; active fires come first.

● Active fires

News for this region ↗ NASA Worldview / EOSDIS (VIIRS, Suomi NPP) · public domain

≈118,737 ha have already burned across the EU in 2026 — above the 20-year average. Source: EFFIS / Copernicus (CC BY 4.0). Fire archive 2026 →