Wildfires & air quality,
on a living globe
A real-time 3D visualization of the planet's active wildfires, natural hazards, and air quality. Every point is live — pulled the moment you load the page from NASA's Earth Observatory and global air-quality sensors. Toggle layers, spin the globe, and hover any point for detail.
Sources: NASA EONET (active wildfires & natural hazards) · Open-Meteo Air Quality (US AQI / PM2.5) · boundaries: Natural Earth. Data is live and refreshes on load.
Active wildfires
Open wildfire events from NASA EONET, each pulsing at its real location. The dataset updates continuously as fires are detected and closed.
Air quality (AQI)
US AQI and PM2.5 for major cities worldwide, drawn as colored bars whose height tracks pollution — the worse the air, the taller and redder the marker.
Natural hazards
Volcanoes, severe storms, floods, and sea ice — the full picture of what the planet is doing right now, color-coded by event type.
This is the first use case migrated from GRIP 3D — a global operations visualization platform that layers real-world events on a 3D globe to detect impact and recover faster.