Satellite

Where the measurements are

Drawn server-side from the public event read model. Every mark is a measurement: nothing here is interpolated, smoothed or inferred.

5.2°5.3°5.4°5.5°5.6°5.7°44.5°44.6°10 kmLuc-en-Diois

What each mark means

Footprint at this scaleVIIRS (NASA) 375 m · not drawnMeteosat (EUMETSAT) ≈2 km · not drawn

  • VIIRS (NASA)375 m6 hr ago

    No detections stored for this frame.

  • Meteosat (EUMETSAT)≈2 km26 min ago

    Measures how much energy the fire radiates, which is what sizes the glow. Its individual pixel positions are not stored, so no Meteosat footprint is drawn — inferring one from the sharper layer would put a fire pixel on ground nobody measured.

  • True geographic scale, corrected for latitude. Frame is about 48 km across.
  • The glow means “an event, roughly here”. Its area follows the measured power and its radius is capped, because an uncapped one would assert a burnt extent nobody measured. The number carries the magnitude.
  • Grey is what a later pass has superseded. Colour means the most recent sharp measurement, and it never fades with the clock — only newer knowledge demotes it.
  • Coastline, lakes and borders come from a generalised map with about 1,7 km between vertices, so treat every line as the shape of the geography and not as a surveyed boundary. It is drawn under the data and never over it.
  • Place names sit at their own coordinates from an offline index of populated places. They say what is near the measurements — not that any named place is burning, and not how far the fire reaches.

Satellite

Current facts

No satellite detection does not mean an area is safe. Cloud, sensor timing and heat below a sensor’s threshold can hide activity.

First seen3 Aug 2026, 15:50 UTC
Last observation3 Aug 2026, 19:20 UTC
Observed stateConfirmed by a measured retrieval
Like-for-like trendNot enough comparable observations
Latest measured power51.3 MW · Meteosat
OfficialNo official source is linked to this event yet.

MTG · VIIRS · Official

Verification ladder

  • SeenObserved

    A satellite observed a thermal anomaly here. Repetition belongs at this step: seeing the same thing many times separates noise from signal, but it does not separate heat from bright ground. Observed by: Meteosat (EUMETSAT).

  • ConfirmedObserved

    The anomaly carries measured energy or a 375 m position — the calibrated Meteosat fire product, or a VIIRS detection. Persistence alone never lights this step, because sunlit dry ground is persistent by nature.

  • Quantified by VIIRSNot yet observed

    VIIRS (NASA) passed overhead and measured radiated power at a 375 m footprint. Between passes it says nothing.

  • Linked to an official sourceNot yet observed

    An official update has been matched to this event. Official information outranks everything above it.

Official

Official source record

Official information is shown separately and takes precedence over satellite interpretation.

No official source is linked to this event yet.

When each sensor looked

Meteosat looks every ten minutes; VIIRS passes a few times a day. The contrast is the point — between sharp passes there is no new sharp knowledge, only the ten-minute layer.

Meteosat (EUMETSAT)VIIRS (NASA)no observations on this rail in the last 72 hours08-03 16:00 UTC08-03 19:10 UTC · 36 min ago

VIIRS · Meteosat

Observation history

Day and night observations stay labelled. REYKR does not compare unlike times of day.

  1. Meteosat1 detections · average 51.3 MW · peak 51.3 MWDay
  2. Meteosat5 detections · average 35.2 MW · peak 58.1 MWDay
  3. Meteosat5 detections · average 29 MW · peak 65.3 MWDay
  4. Meteosat6 detections · average 49.3 MW · peak 89 MWDay
  5. Meteosat1 detections · average 79.1 MW · peak 79.1 MWDay
  6. Meteosat1 detections · average 77.3 MW · peak 77.3 MWDay
  7. Meteosat4 detections · average 119.9 MW · peak 181.6 MWDay
  8. Meteosat1 detections · average 49.2 MW · peak 49.2 MWDay
  9. Meteosat6 detections · average 64.7 MW · peak 157.3 MWDay
  10. Meteosat7 detections · average 72.4 MW · peak 223.8 MWDay
  11. Meteosat9 detections · average 99.9 MW · peak 307.7 MWDay
  12. Meteosat5 detections · average 155.5 MW · peak 471.5 MWDay
  13. Meteosat9 detections · average 319.6 MW · peak 1,192.7 MWDay
  14. Meteosat9 detections · average 319 MW · peak 940.6 MWDay
  15. Meteosat8 detections · average 208 MW · peak 673.8 MWDay
  16. Meteosat11 detections · average 225 MW · peak 592.4 MWDay

Nearby

Other fires nearby

Other satellite-observed events within 100 km, nearest first — up to six shown.

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  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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  • Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur

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  • Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur

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  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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