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The NOAA Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire and Smoke Product is a satellite-derived analysis of fire locations and smoke plumes over North America, produced operationally by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO). Trained analysts integrate automated fire detections from geostationary (GOES) and polar-orbiting satellites with imagery to manually quality-control fire points and to delineate smoke plumes by density. The daily products are distributed as fire point and smoke polygon datasets in Shapefile and KML formats. HMS data are used to monitor wildfire activity and air-quality-relevant smoke transport across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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| ID | Name | URL | Category | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| noaa-hms.smoke-polygons | HMS Smoke Polygons | Smoke_Polygons | DataSource | mixed | Daily HMS smoke plume polygons over N... |
| noaa-hms.fire-points | HMS Fire Points | Fire_Points | DataSource | mixed | Daily HMS analyst-reviewed fire detec... |
| ID | Name | URL | Category | Format | Relation | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| knowwheregraph.graph | KnowWhereGraph RDF Knowledge Graph | knowwheregraph.org | GraphProduct | rdfxml | had primary source | KnowWhereGraph knowledge graph with 2... |
The NOAA Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire and Smoke Product is an operational, satellite-derived analysis of fire locations and smoke plumes covering North America. It is produced by trained analysts at NOAA/NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO), who combine automated fire detections from GOES geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites with satellite imagery to manually verify fire points and to outline smoke plumes by density.
Outputs are released daily as fire point and smoke polygon datasets in Shapefile and KML formats and are widely reused for wildfire monitoring and smoke/air-quality applications. HMS serves as an upstream data source for KnowWhereGraph.
Created: June 18, 2026 | Last modified: June 18, 2026