DisasterScan
In production (Brazil)
National fire, rain and river intelligence for Brazil, turned into which municipalities, how many people and how many hours.
What it does
DisasterScan, in brief.
DisasterScan holds Brazil's national hazard record in one warehouse: 18.2 million satellite fire detections since 2023 (refreshed daily), 88.7 million hourly observations from INMET's automatic stations since 2000 (refreshed monthly), a registry of 41,569 hydro-meteorological stations, 30,020 dams and the 2022 census for all 5,571 municipalities.
In Rio Grande do Sul it reads 130 civil-defence rain and river stations every hour, learns each station's own alarm threshold from its history and runs a 24-hour alarm model, validated retrospectively and blind on past floods.
A command centre, behind sign-in, shows it by municipality.
Seen from orbit
Burn scars, beyond the visible.
The 2024 fire season in the Pantanal, in true colour and in short-wave infrared. DisasterScan holds INPE's fire detections for the same season; imagery layers are on the roadmap.
Capabilities
What is live, and what is next.
liveloaded, in build or in designroadmap
- 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
- Radar flood-extent mapping (Sentinel-1) on a commercial processing pathroadmap
Sources integrated today
Official sources, named.
Each source is documented with its licence and its as-of date.
- INPE – Programa Queimadas (daily)
- INMET automatic stations (monthly)
- ANA station inventory
- ANA – SNISB dam register
- IBGE Census 2022 and municipal mesh
- Defesa Civil RS station feed (hourly)
On the record
What DisasterScan holds, 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
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
Contact
Tell us which ground you need to read.
A mining portfolio, a river basin, a farm district, a corridor or a single address. Write with the place and the decision behind it, and we will show you what the platform holds today and what is in build.
contact@thenumbird.comNUMBIRD · MARKUS IT LLC d/b/a NUMBIRD · Florida, USA · Operating across Latin America and the United States