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ISKRA Europe — live satellite wildfire and thermal anomaly map of Europe

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Black is burnt, the bright line is the front.
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🔔 Alerts for your own area

Nobody has to approve you. Pick an area, connect your Telegram, and the bot messages you when new satellite detections appear there.
Only report fires above
⚠ Industrial heat, gas flares and burning stubble are detected too. A power threshold is the best noise filter.
Your Telegram chat
1. Open @iskra_eu_bot and press Start.
2. Send it /id — it replies with a number.
3. Paste that number here.
A confirmation message goes to that chat. Alerts start only after you press the link inside it.
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under 1 h ago
1–3 h
3–6 h
6–12 h
12–24 h
over 24 h
country border
Dot size follows fire radiative power (FRP) on a logarithmic scale, so a 2000 MW fire still reads bigger than a 200 MW one. Fires above 200 MW also carry a white ring.
⚠ FRP is not comparable between sensors: a 3 km Meteosat pixel sums a far larger area than a 375 m VIIRS one — measured median 16.2 MW against 4.2 MW for the same continent. Compare sizes within a sensor, not across them.
Two kinds of eyes. Polar satellites (VIIRS 375 m, MODIS 1 km) are sharp but pass only a few times a day. Meteosat (geostationary, ~3–5 km over Europe) is coarser but returns every 15 minutes — so it is usually the first to see a fire, and a point it has seen many times is far more credible than a single hit.
⚠ Meteosat sees Europe at a slant; towards the far north the angle gets too flat and sensitivity drops.
Extra layers (top right): burnt areas this season and latest, today’s fire danger (Fire Weather Index) and the European fuel map, all from EFFIS / GWIS (Copernicus, JRC). Regions are NUTS 2 from Eurostat, named in the local language.
Confidence is the satellite’s own judgement of the detection, and the sources word it differently: VIIRS gives a class (low / nominal / high), MODIS and Meteosat give a percentage. Most VIIRS detections are nominal.
⚠ A detection is a hot pixel, not a confirmed wildfire: industrial heat, gas flares and burning stubble look the same from orbit.
Data: NASA FIRMS · EUMETSAT LSA SAF · EFFIS/GWIS (Copernicus, JRC) · Eurostat GISCO.
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⚠ Early prototype. These are RAW satellite detections with no false-alarm filtering. Not a replacement for official services or emergency numbers (112 in the EU).