Legal notice and terms of use

In compliance with Spanish Law 34/2002 on information society services (LSSI-CE), the owner of worldfires.org is Doomos Real Estate S.L.U., tax ID (CIF) B86022159, registered office at calle Juan de Mariana 8A, 1.º C, Madrid (Spain), registered in the Madrid Commercial Register, volume 28,167, folio 140, section 8, sheet M-50446, entry 1.

Contact: through the contact form.

WorldFires is not an alert or emergency management system, is not linked to any official body and does not replace information from the authorities.

If you see a fire or are in danger, call 112 (or your local emergency number) and always follow the instructions of civil protection, firefighters and the authorities in your area. A fire not appearing here does not mean it does not exist, and a fire shown as active does not mean it is still burning.

Everything we publish comes from open sources, mostly satellite observations and models, and is processed automatically. Therefore:

• There are delays: a satellite passes over only a few times a day and each source publishes with its own lag, from hours to weeks.
• There are false positives and gaps: heat detectors sometimes mistake industry, agricultural burning, volcanoes or reflections for wildfires, and clouds or smoke can hide real fires.
• Areas, perimeters, place names, distances and weather are estimates and may be corrected or change over time.
• The grouping into fire pages, the names we give them and the texts that accompany them are generated by software and may contain errors.

We do not guarantee that the information is accurate, complete or up to date. Do not use it as a basis for safety, evacuation, legal, expert, insurance or investment decisions. If you spot an error, please tell us.

This is an experimental project: we may change, suspend or close the site or any part of it, including the API, at any time and without notice. We do not guarantee that it will work without interruptions or errors.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Doomos Real Estate S.L.U. is not liable for direct or indirect damage arising from the use of the site or its data, from decisions taken on the basis of it, from errors, omissions or delays in the information, or from interruptions of the service.

Nothing above limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, nor the rights that consumer law grants you.

Source data belongs to its authors and is used under their licences:

• Fire perimeters and indices: EFFIS, Copernicus Emergency Management Service. © European Union, reused under the Copernicus data policy.
• Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Acknowledgement: “Data from NASA’s LANCE FIRMS, operated by ESDIS”.
• Satellite imagery: NASA GIBS / Worldview and Copernicus Sentinel missions.
• Weather: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), based on the Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis and national weather models.
• Air quality and smoke: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), via Open-Meteo.
• Protected areas: Natura 2000, European Environment Agency.
• Administrative boundaries: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0), OCHA COD-AB / HDX (CC BY-IGO), Portugal’s CAOP and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
• Names and population: Wikidata (CC0).
• Official series: EFFIS national estimates and Statistics Portugal (INE, ICNF data).

These sources do not endorse WorldFires and are not responsible for how we process their data.

The data we produce (fire pages, aggregates and series) may be reused under a CC BY 4.0 licence: credit WorldFires with a link and also the relevant original sources. The site’s design, texts and code are not covered by that licence.

The public API is free, comes with no warranty of any kind and no availability commitment. Identify your program with a recognisable User-Agent header, cache what you request and do not make more requests than needed. We may limit or block uses that degrade the service, and change or withdraw the API.

Do not present this data as official information or as emergency warnings.

You may not attack or overload the site, download it in bulk in a way that harms others, try to access non-public parts or use it for unlawful purposes.

We link to third-party sites for reference. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content.

Some pages show ads served by Google. Google chooses them, not us: their presence does not mean we recommend what is advertised. What they mean for your privacy is explained in the privacy policy.

These texts are published in several languages. If versions differ, the Spanish version prevails.

These terms are governed by Spanish law. For any dispute, the parties submit to the courts of Madrid, unless you are a consumer, in which case you may go to the courts of your place of residence.

If any clause is declared void, the rest remain in force.