Deepfire OGC API
Public, read-only access to Deepfire's satellite wildfire data: fire detections (hotspots), candidate fires (clusters), and estimated fire perimeters — current and historical, global coverage.
All endpoints are public. No signup, no authentication, no API key.
Two standards, same data
| Base URL | Use it for | |
|---|---|---|
| OGC API - Features (recommended) | https://ogc.deepfire.co/ogc/features/v1 | Modern REST/JSON integrations |
| WFS 2.0 | https://ogc.deepfire.co/ows | Existing GIS tooling (QGIS, ArcGIS), server-side sorting, feature counts |
CORS is open (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *), so you can call the API from browser
JavaScript as well as from a backend — and the Send API Request buttons in the
API reference work right in the page.
Collections
| Collection | Contents | Geometry | Approx. scale |
|---|---|---|---|
deepfire:hotspots | Satellite fire detections | Point | ~18.7M rows, ~380k active |
deepfire:clusters | Candidate fires (cluster centroids) | Point | ~3.25M rows |
deepfire:satellite-perimeters | Estimated fire perimeter snapshots | MultiPolygon | ~140k snapshots, ~19k active |
All geometries are EPSG:4326, lon/lat order.
The active flag
Every collection serves the full history — current and past rows — and an unfiltered
query returns everything. The boolean active attribute distinguishes the live working set
(active = true) from historical rows. If you only want live fires, filter
active = true yourself — see Filtering.
Freshness
New detections are ingested from the upstream satellite programs about every minute, perimeters are recomputed about every 30 seconds, and responses are edge-cached for 60 seconds — so what you see can lag ingestion by roughly one to two minutes. Details in Data sources & update cadence.
Where next
- Quickstart — first requests in two minutes.
- Collections — what each collection contains, attribute by attribute.
- Guides — filtering, paging & bulk export, output formats, WFS, limits.
- API Reference — every endpoint, with runnable request panels.