Sources
Every figure on this platform traces back to a named source with its own licence, cadence and reliability. This page shows the live health of each one, and how each is attributed.
Risk model configuration: config/risk-model.json, version 2026.08.5. See the methodology page for what every weight in it means.
Source health
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Update cadence
How often each source is refreshed in normal operation. A satellite detection can still be hours old when it arrives: polar-orbiting satellites pass a given point a handful of times a day, so "last fetched" and "last observed" are different things and both are shown above.
- NASA FIRMS
- Fetched every 20 minutes; new observations arrive with each polar-orbiting satellite overpass (several per day), and NASA's near real time products themselves lag by around 3 hours.
- EUMETSAT LSA SAF
- Geostationary fire radiative power from Meteosat Third Generation, new frames roughly every 10 minutes: the fastest signal this platform has, at coarser resolution than the polar-orbiting satellites above.
- alerts.in.ua
- Ukrainian civil defence air raid alert status by administrative area, polled continuously. Ukraine theatre only.
Developers: every dataset on this site is available as JSON. See the API documentation.
Attribution and licensing
Every data source behind this platform keeps its own licence and attribution requirement. Live status for each is in the table above; the wording below follows each source's own attribution guidance.
- NASA FIRMSUS Government work, public domain
- We acknowledge the use of data and imagery from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) (https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), operated by the LANCE and ESDIS teams.
- Open-MeteoCC BY 4.0
- Weather forecast and observation data by Open-Meteo.com, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
- Copernicus EFFISEuropean Union
- Contains modified Copernicus data, European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), (c) European Union.
- EUMETSATCC BY 4.0
- Live fire radiative power imagery from the Meteosat Third Generation EUMETView WMS service, copyright 2026 EUMETSAT, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
- OpenStreetMap contributorsODbL
- Building and facility context via the Overpass API. (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- ONS and Ordnance Survey boundariesOpen Government Licence v3
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey boundary data.
- postcodes.ioMIT, ONS and OS data
- Postcode lookup via the free postcodes.io API, itself built on ONS and Ordnance Survey open data.
- OpenFreeMap and CARTO basemapsODbL basemap data
- Map tiles from OpenFreeMap and CARTO basemap styles, built on OpenStreetMap data under the Open Database Licence.
- MHCLG fire statisticsOpen Government Licence v3
- Fire and rescue workforce statistics (FIRE1101) from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- alerts.in.uaFree API, attribution requested
- Ukrainian air raid alert data from alerts.in.ua (https://alerts.in.ua/), a volunteer project. Used in Conflict Watch's Ukraine theatre only; alerts.in.ua asked to be credited wherever this data is shown, and we are glad to.