How are wildfire data collected?

Wildfire data are collected from different on-ground sensors and earth observation satellites.

Advantages of Ambee's fire API over others?

Ambee's forest fire dataset is available in near real-time and at high spatial resolution.

Who can use fire data?

Fire datasets can be used by anyone from disaster planning to construction.

What is forest fire data?

Forest fire data is a bundle of information that can be used to identify active forest fires worldwide.

Does API provides real time forest fire data?

The forest fire API provides near-real-time forest fire data across the globe.

Ambee Wildfire API | Global Wildfire Data & Forecasts

Getting started with Ambee’s widlfire API

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.ambeedata.com")

headers = {
    'x-api-key': "API_KEY",
    'Content-type': "application/json"
}

conn.request("GET", "/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

const http = require('https');

const options = {
	method: 'GET',
	hostname: 'api.ambeedata.com',
	port: null,
	path: '/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263',
	headers: {
		'x-api-key': 'API_KEY',
		'Content-type': 'application/json'
	}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
	const chunks = [];

	res.on('data', function (chunk) {
		chunks.push(chunk);
	});

	res.on('end', function () {
		const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
		console.log(body.toString());
	});
});

req.end();

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
	.url("https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263")
	.get()
	.addHeader("x-api-key", "API_KEY")
	.addHeader("Content-type", "application/json")
	.build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
	Method = HttpMethod.Get,
	RequestUri = new Uri("https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263"),
	Headers =
	{
		{ "x-api-key", "API_KEY" },
	},
};
using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request))
{
	response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
	var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
	Console.WriteLine(body);
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "API_KEY")
	req.Header.Add("Content-type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
	CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263",
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
	CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
	CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
	CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
	CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
	CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
	CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
		"Content-type: application/json",
		"x-api-key: API_KEY"
	],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
	echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
	echo $response;
}

curl --request GET \
	--url 'https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263' \
	--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
	--header 'x-api-key: API_KEY'

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=36.51051&lng=-96.26263")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = 'API_KEY'
request["Content-type"] = 'application/json'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.ambeedata.com")

headers = {
    'x-api-key': "API_KEY",
    'Content-type': "application/json"
}

conn.request("GET", "/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

const http = require('https');

const options = {
	method: 'GET',
	hostname: 'api.ambeedata.com',
	port: null,
	path: '/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951',
	headers: {
		'x-api-key': 'API_KEY',
		'Content-type': 'application/json'
	}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
	const chunks = [];

	res.on('data', function (chunk) {
		chunks.push(chunk);
	});

	res.on('end', function () {
		const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
		console.log(body.toString());
	});
});

req.end();

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
	.url("https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951")
	.get()
	.addHeader("x-api-key", "API_KEY")
	.addHeader("Content-type", "application/json")
	.build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
	Method = HttpMethod.Get,
	RequestUri = new Uri("https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951"),
	Headers =
	{
		{ "x-api-key", "API_KEY" },
	},
};
using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request))
{
	response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
	var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
	Console.WriteLine(body);
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "API_KEY")
	req.Header.Add("Content-type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
	CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951",
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
	CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
	CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
	CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
	CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
	CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
	CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
		"Content-type: application/json",
		"x-api-key: API_KEY"
	],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
	echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
	echo $response;
}

curl --request GET \
	--url 'https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951' \
	--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
	--header 'x-api-key: API_KEY'

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.ambeedata.com/fire/risk/by-lat-lng?lat=22.948819&lng=101.495951")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = 'API_KEY'
request["Content-type"] = 'application/json'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

 {
    "message": "success",
    "data": [
      {
        "lat": 36.58732,
        "lng": -119.34142,
        "detectedAt": "2024-07-05T09:31:00.000Z",
        "confidence": "nominal",
        "frp": 7.39,
        "fwi": 61.65739822387695,
        "fireType": "detected",
        "fireCategory": "N"
      },
      {
        "lat": 36.793185048266906,
        "lng": -119.70205068315111,
        "detectedAt": "2024-07-03T07:25:28.000Z",
        "modifiedAt": "2024-07-03T07:37:38.093Z",
        "fireName": "HAM",
        "areaBurnt": 0.01,
        "fwi": 62.980899810791016,
        "fireType": "reported"
      }
   ]
 }

{
    "message": "success",
    "data": [
        {
            "week": 9,
            "fwi_today": 0,
            "ffmc_today": 0,
            "weekly_seasonality": 0.1429,
            "temperature": 28.7,
            "precipitation": 0,
            "days_since_last_fire": 1,
            "predicted_risk": 1,
            "predicted_risk_category": "moderate",
            "created_time": "2025-02-28T01:08:55.126Z"
        },
        {
            "week": 10,
            "fwi_today": 0,
            "ffmc_today": 0,
            "weekly_seasonality": 0.09320000000000002,
            "temperature": 22.6,
            "precipitation": 0.1,
            "days_since_last_fire": 1,
            "predicted_risk": 1,
            "predicted_risk_category": "moderate",
            "created_time": "2025-02-28T01:08:55.126Z"
        },
        {
            "week": 11,
            "fwi_today": 0,
            "ffmc_today": 0,
            "weekly_seasonality": 0.09320000000000002,
            "temperature": 28.5,
            "precipitation": 0,
            "days_since_last_fire": 1,
            "predicted_risk": 1,
            "predicted_risk_category": "moderate",
            "created_time": "2025-02-28T01:08:55.126Z"
        },
        {
            "week": 12,
            "fwi_today": 0,
            "ffmc_today": 0,
            "weekly_seasonality": 0.1242,
            "temperature": 28,
            "precipitation": 0,
            "days_since_last_fire": 1,
            "predicted_risk": 1,
            "predicted_risk_category": "moderate",
            "created_time": "2025-02-28T01:08:55.126Z"
        }
    ]
}

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360° Wildfire intelligence, before it becomes wildfire damage

Ambee Wildfire

All relevant wildfire metrics

Global coverage

Any location, any format

Continuously refreshed

20+ years of historical data

4-week risk forecast

Inside Ambee’s wildfire data

Fire Radiative Power

Fire Weather Index

Fine Fuel Moisture Code

Fire category

Detection confidence

Burned area

Smoke plumes

Risk forecast

How Ambee builds its wildfire data

Ingestion

Homogenization

Recency

Reliability

A continuous time series from the past, present, and the future

Detected fires

Reported fires

4-week risk

20+ year archive

What sets Ambee’s wildfire data apart

Ambee's wildfire forecast: January 2025, California

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Insurance

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APIs

Marketplace integrations

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Flat files

Getting started with Ambee’s widlfire API

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Make your request

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