Country overview
Wildfire observations in Germany
Events are grouped by the latest measured state. A quiet observation is not a safety assessment.
This is satellite-based information — always follow instructions from local authorities. Read the method
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.
What each mark means
- VIIRS (NASA)375 m32 hr ago
No detections stored for this frame.
- Meteosat (EUMETSAT)≈2 km11 hr 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 1906 km across.
- At this scale both sensor footprints are smaller than a pixel, so no true-scale square is drawn. Two squares clamped to the same legible minimum would show a 1:1 ratio for a 5:1 fact.
- 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- Grey is what a later pass has superseded.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.
- At country scale each fire is one glow. Individual 375 m detections resolve on the event page, where they are larger than a pixel.
Measured activity
Current measurable activity
Sindelfingen, Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Herrenberg, Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Battenberg, Regierungsbezirk Kassel
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Marburg an der Lahn, Regierungsbezirk Gießen
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Frankenthal, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
Lower activity in a like-for-like comparisonView event facts →Kronweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
Confirmed by a measured retrievalView event facts →Reichenberg, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
Confirmed by a measured retrievalView event facts →Meiderich, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
Renewed measurable activityView event facts →Beckum, Regierungsbezirk Münster
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Niederwerth, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Korbach, Regierungsbezirk Kassel
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Rheinhausen, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Kehl, Freiburg Region
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →Bottrop, Regierungsbezirk Münster
Unknown
Measurable thermal activityView event facts →
No measurable activity
Tracked events without measurable activity in the latest observation
No satellite detection does not mean an area is safe. Cloud, sensor timing and heat below a sensor’s threshold can hide activity.
Wülfrath, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Völklingen, Saarland
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Dillingen, Saarland
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Erwitte, Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Geseke, Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Herbolzheim, Freiburg Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Bexbach, Saarland
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Brandscheid, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Heusweiler, Saarland
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Orenhofen, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Koxhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Gutach im Breisgau, Freiburg Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Schmelz, Saarland
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Salmtal, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Dasburg, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Gerbach, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Steinhagen, Regierungsbezirk Detmold
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Zons, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Villmar, Regierungsbezirk Gießen
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Pölich, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Hockenheim, Karlsruhe Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Bürstadt, Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Altlay, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Gailingen, Freiburg Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Wattenscheid, Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Biebrich, Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Wörth am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Weilerswist, Regierungsbezirk Köln
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Mechernich, Regierungsbezirk Köln
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Jünkerath, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Heinsberg, Regierungsbezirk Köln
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Büchel, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Schweppenhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Straelen, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Hagen, Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Ortenberg, Freiburg Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Gillenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Wilsecker, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Gonbach, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Korschenbroich, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Elsdorf, Regierungsbezirk Köln
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Rodenkirchen, Regierungsbezirk Köln
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Glees, Rheinland-Pfalz
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Jüchen, Düsseldorf District
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Meschede, Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Eppingen, Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Lahr, Freiburg Region
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →Bornheim, Regierungsbezirk Köln
Unknown
No measurable activity in recent satellite observationsView event facts →