Fire Incidents

Current and historical incidents, grouped under stable Fire IDs with their source reports and links.

The deepfire:fires collection returns one feature per canonical incident. Multiple reports describing the same incident are attached to that Fire. Agency-backed and manually confirmed incidents are included; satellite detections awaiting confirmation and prescribed burns are separate datasets. You do not need to supply an incident-type filter.

Both active and closed fires are returned by default. Historical coverage is limited to eligible reports retained and linked by Deepfire; uncertain historical matches may remain separate incidents.

Active fires in Catalonia

This bounding box covers roughly Catalonia, including some neighboring areas. It is not the exact administrative boundary.

curl -G 'https://api.deepfire.co/ogc/features/v1/collections/deepfire:fires/items' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode 'bbox=0.15,40.5,3.4,42.9' \
  --data-urlencode 'filter=active = true' \
  --data-urlencode 'filter-lang=cql2-text' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=100' \
  --data-urlencode 'f=application/geo+json'

Fires active during a historical window

For July 2025, select incidents whose lifetimes overlap [2025-07-01, 2025-08-01). This includes fires that started in June and continued into July. datetime is not a substitute for this incident-span predicate.

curl -G 'https://api.deepfire.co/ogc/features/v1/collections/deepfire:fires/items' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode 'bbox=0.15,40.5,3.4,42.9' \
  --data-urlencode "filter=start_time < TIMESTAMP('2025-08-01T00:00:00Z') AND (ended_at IS NULL OR ended_at > TIMESTAMP('2025-07-01T00:00:00Z'))" \
  --data-urlencode 'filter-lang=cql2-text' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=100' \
  --data-urlencode 'f=application/geo+json'

Properties

Geometry is a point in EPSG (longitude, latitude). It is the latest canonical location, not a historical perimeter.

Property	Meaning
`id`	Canonical Fire UUID
`name`	Primary report name, falling back to the cached place name
`location_source`	`manual`, `cluster`, or `report`
`start_time`, `ended_at`	Canonical activity span; `ended_at` is null for active fires
`active`	Canonical incident status, including consensus closure
`area_m2`, `area_source`	Best available area: official perimeter, primary report, then derived satellite estimate; estimates are not summed across reports
`containment`, `source`	Primary report’s containment percentage and provider
`aliases`	Searchable names from all attached public reports
`deepfire_url`	Link to the incident in Deepfire
`reports_json`	String containing a JSON array of source evidence

Parse reports_json once after parsing GeoJSON. Each array entry contains id, source, externalId, name, primary, active, startTime, endedAt, updatedAt, lastSeenAt, and url. Null values mean that a source did not supply the fact. A source’s active state can differ from the canonical incident status.

Tenant names, comments, assignments, and private reports are excluded. Facts are the latest retained values; historical queries do not reconstruct past field values or inactive gaps in a reopened incident.