ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (FireCCI): MODIS FireCCI Burned Area GRID product, version 5.1 (2023-2024)

This dataset includes only the monthly FireCCI51 burned area grids for 2023 and 2024. The files are derived from the MODIS FireCCI v5.1 product, developed within the ESA Fire Disturbance project of the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), but only the burned area variable aggregated onto a regular global 0.25-degree grid is provided here. Specifically, the dataset includes only the burned_area variable, expressed in m². No additional auxiliary variables from the original product are included, standard error, fraction of observed area, fraction of burnable area, or other ancillary layers. The files are organized by year and month for 2023 and 2024, and represent the monthly burned area in each cell of the global grid. These data were used as input to train the harmonisation model applied in the development of the MRBA60 product (Torres-Vázquez et al., 2026). The data are distributed in NetCDF (.nc) format, using a WGS84 geographic coordinate system and a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. The file structure preserves the essential metadata associated with the burned_area variable from the original FireCCI51 product.Previous years of the FireCCI51 product, covering the period 2001–2022, are the official release of the dataset and can be accessed through the original product record: Chuvieco, E.; Pettinari, M.L.; Lizundia-Loiola, J.; Storm, T.; Padilla Parellada, M. (2018): ESA Fire Climate Change Initiative (Fire_cci): MODIS Fire_cci Burned Area Pixel product, version 5.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 01 November 2018. doi:10.5285/58f00d8814064b79a0c49662ad3af537. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/58f00d8814064b79a0c49662ad3af537 Algorithm reference: Lizundia-Loiola, J., Otón, G., Ramo, R., and Chuvieco, E. (2020). A spatio-temporal active-fire clustering approach for global burned area mapping at 250 m from MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 236, 111493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111493.