Real-time satellite wildfire monitoring for Algeria — live fire detections, intensity, history replay, and fire-risk by wilaya.
🌍 Live: www.algeriafiremap.site
Open source · MIT licensed · Built with NASA FIRMS, Open-Meteo & OpenStreetMap
Fire-weather risk (FWI) by wilaya · live fires over satellite · mobile, map-first UX
An interactive national map that shows where Algeria is burning, right now — and how dangerous conditions are.
- Live fire map — active-fire detections from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS 375 m + MODIS), updated through the day, glowing by intensity (fire radiative power).
- Confirmed only — we keep high-confidence detections with FRP ≥ 15 MW, filtering out low-confidence noise and small agricultural burns, so the map shows real wildfires.
- Fire detail — tap any fire for power (MW), confidence, detection time (Algeria local), satellite, and the place (town · wilaya · daïra) via reverse geocoding.
- Timeline replay — scrub or play back the last 5 days and watch fires appear and spread, with an activity histogram.
- Most-affected wilayas — live ranking; tap to fly there.
- Fire-risk (FWI) — per-wilaya fire-danger from the Fire Weather Index, computed from live Open-Meteo weather (the same index EFFIS uses).
- Incidents — raw detections are clustered server-side into fire events (first/last-seen, affected-area hull, peak intensity) for a cleaner "how many fires, how big" view.
- Communities at risk — inhabited places (OSM) near recent confirmed fires, tiered severely-affected / immediate / warning, with one-tap Google Maps directions — to help direct aid.
- Reforestation & Recovery map (
/restore) — recent burn scars (fires that are out), priority-ranked for replanting, each labelled forest / agricultural / rangeland via ESA WorldCover land cover — so restoration teams know where and what to replant. - Statistics — national + per-wilaya wildfire history and seasonal trends (indexable SEO pages), from 25 years of detections.
- Map styles — Dark, Satellite (Esri), Light. Algeria's border is highlighted and neighbours are dimmed to keep focus on the country.
- Bilingual (Arabic / English, full RTL), mobile-first UX (bottom sheet + thumb-zone controls), and multilingual SEO.
We operate on fire-prone northern Algeria — the Sahara is display-only, since its persistent FIRMS detections are mostly industrial gas flares, not wildfires.
NASA FIRMS ┐ Open-Meteo OSM/Overpass ESA WorldCover (GEE)
▼ ▼ ▼ ▼
┌──────────── FastAPI (Railway) — all APIs + schedulers ─────────────┐
│ /fires /place /risk /events /stats /at-risk /restoration /health │
│ ingest cron (15 min) → dedupe → cluster → stats · land-cover sweep │
│ Postgres + PostGIS (Supabase) · Redis cache (ETag) · all secrets │
└────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┘
▼ HTTPS (no secrets)
Next.js (Vercel) — stateless, SEO, i18n
MapLibre GL JS · dark/satellite/light
- Frontend — Next.js (App Router, TypeScript) + MapLibre GL JS, deployed on Vercel. Stateless: holds no secrets, calls the API over HTTPS. Tuned for SEO (Open Graph, sitemap + hreflang, JSON-LD graph, Arabic/French/English) with privacy-friendly analytics.
- Backend — a single FastAPI service on Railway owning all endpoints, secrets, ingestion, clustering, and FWI, behind a Redis cache, with Postgres + PostGIS (Supabase) for detections, fire events, places and burn-scar land cover. Background schedulers keep it fresh: FIRMS ingest every 15 min, and an ESA WorldCover land-cover sweep for new burn scars.
- Data — NASA FIRMS (fires), Open-Meteo (weather / FWI), OpenStreetMap / Overpass (basemaps + places), Esri (satellite), ESA WorldCover via Google Earth Engine (land cover), GeoAlgeria (wilaya names).
apps/web Next.js frontend (MapLibre, SEO)
services/api FastAPI backend (fires, place, risk, FWI)
docker-compose.yml Local dev: api + redis
Prerequisites: Node 20+, Python 3.12+, a free NASA FIRMS MAP_KEY.
Backend
cp services/api/.env.example services/api/.env # add NASA_FIRMS_MAP_KEY
docker compose up --build # API → http://localhost:8000/docs…or without Docker:
cd services/api && python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn app.main:app --reloadFrontend
cd apps/web
cp .env.example .env.local # NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:8000
npm install && npm run dev # → http://localhost:3000| Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|
GET /fires?days=1..5 |
Active-fire detections (GeoJSON) for northern Algeria |
GET /place?lat=&lng= |
Reverse-geocoded place (town · wilaya) for a fire |
GET /risk |
Per-wilaya Fire Weather Index + danger class |
GET /events |
Clustered fire incidents (centroid, hull, first/last-seen, intensity) |
GET /stats · GET /stats/wilaya/{code} |
National / per-wilaya wildfire statistics |
GET /at-risk |
Inhabited places near recent confirmed fires, tiered by severity |
GET /restoration?days= |
Recent burn scars with area, restoration priority + land cover |
GET /health |
Service status + data-freshness (ingest + land-cover) |
- Real-time fire map, confirmed filter, detail + place
- Timeline replay, most-affected wilayas, mobile UX, SEO
- Fire-risk (FWI) map layer + 3-day forecast
- Persistence (Postgres + PostGIS) → fire-event clustering & history
- Statistics (national + per-wilaya, 25 years)
- Communities at risk (aid targeting)
- Reforestation & Recovery map + ESA WorldCover land cover
- Sentinel-2 dNBR burn severity + slope-based erosion urgency
- ML risk prediction (trained on accumulated data)
- Alerts · citizen reporting · IoT sensors
Contributions are welcome — issues and PRs of all sizes. This is a public-service project for Algeria; help make it more accurate and more useful.
MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute.
NASA FIRMS · Open-Meteo · OpenStreetMap / OpenFreeMap / OpenMapTiles · Esri World Imagery · ESA WorldCover (via Google Earth Engine) · Supabase (Postgres + PostGIS) · GeoAlgeria · Algeria's Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC).