Disaster & environment
(floods, fires, climate risk)
StatusLive (Brazil national; US flood)
Fire detections, rainfall, rivers and dams on Brazil's municipal map, and flood risk resolved to the address in the United States. In Rio Grande do Sul, civil-defence rain and river stations are read every hour, each against its own alarm threshold.
What the platform reads
Capabilities, with their status today.
liveloaded or in buildroadmap
- Daily national fire-detection record with per-satellite provenance (INPE)live
- Hourly weather archive from 2000, and a national station and dam registrylive
- Per-station climatological thresholds and a 24-hour alarm model for Rio Grande do Sul (BigQuery ML)live · Rio Grande do Sul
- Municipal exposure: hazard joined to the IBGE mesh and the 2022 censuslive
- Live address lookup: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer zone, elevation, census geographylive
- Radar flood-extent mapping (Sentinel-1) on a commercial processing pathroadmap
On the record
The figures behind it, each with its source.
18.2M
satellite fire detections over Brazil since January 2023, held and refreshed daily
Detections, not fires: one fire is seen on several passes and by several satellites.
Source: INPE – Programa Queimadas · latest detection 24 Sep 2026, 23:50 UTC
5,565
Brazilian municipalities with at least one INPE fire detection since 2023
Source: INPE – Programa Queimadas · 24 Sep 2026
88.7M
hourly weather observations from 704 INMET automatic stations, May 2000 to August 2026
Source: INMET · last observation 31 Aug 2026
41,569
hydro-meteorological stations in one national registry (ANA 40,735 · INMET 704 · Rio Grande do Sul civil defence 130)
Source: ANA, INMET, Defesa Civil RS · registry of 25 Sep 2026
130
Rio Grande do Sul civil-defence rain and river stations read every hour
Source: Defesa Civil RS · 25 Sep 2026, 22:07 UTC
5,571 municipalities
203.1M residents
every Brazilian municipality and its 2022 census population: the municipal base layer hazard data is joined to
Source: IBGE · Census 2022
30,020
dams in Brazil's national dam-safety register (SNISB)
Source: ANA – SNISB · as of Feb 2026
2.72M flood claims
US$ 88.75 bn paid
National Flood Insurance Program claims, 1978 to July 2026, building and contents paid
Source: FEMA OpenFEMA (FEMA does not endorse NUMBIRD) · as of Aug 2026
85,154
US census tracts with FEMA National Risk Index hazard ratings
Source: FEMA National Risk Index · loaded 20 Jul 2026
Solutions for this industry
Solutions for this industry
DisasterScan
Live · Brazil
National fire, rain and river intelligence for Brazil, turned into which municipalities, how many people and how many hours.
Status: In production (Brazil)
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FloodScan
Live · United States
US flood risk resolved to the address: FEMA zones, elevation, claims history and the parcel roll in one answer.
Status: In production (United States; Florida parcel depth)
Explore FloodScanOther industries
Contact
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