NASA FIRMS Fire Fetch

Core Goal

• Fetch NASA FIRMS active fire detections for one bounding box in one invocation.
• Support inclusive --start-date and --end-date even though FIRMS only accepts up to 5 days per request.
• Return machine-readable JSON with request metadata, chunk transport details, validation summary, and normalized fire records.
• Keep runtime observable with structured stderr logs and optional file logs.

Required Environment

• NASA_FIRMS_MAP_KEY is required for remote requests.
• Start from assets/config.example.env and keep the real key in assets/config.env.
• Load env values before running commands:

set -a
source assets/config.env
set +a