Thanks, they're so useful.
It would be fantastic if one could draw some graphs indicating the amount of fires in the same area for the same time frame (say mid summer) but in different years. Does anyone know if there is such a feature? It would help to investigate politically motivated arsons by finding correlation with various events. The amount of fires we had in Rome/Italy in 2017 raised too many flags in my head; I recall days during that summer where one couldn't turn in a direction where there weren't one or more fires in sight, and I for myself got intoxicated while helping friends to fight one that was getting very close to their home.
Some of those arsons were started in mid morning, before 11 am, when the already dim chances to have a spontaneous fire drop below zero, and I perfectly recalled the smell of smoke bombs (very often used at the stadium) while passing by near one just put out by the firefighters.
My theory is that some "entity" wanted either to send a message to the new mayor or make her waste as much as of the city funds to fight fires (firefighters, trucks, helicopters, planes etc cost a fortune) so that she and the council would be much easier to fight at the following elections. Putting time and events on paper could help to connect the dots.
Interesting maps. I wonder how they can tell there's a fire. Also, what's the false hit rate? Interestingly enough, the FIRMS data has 2 fires in my town, not 10 miles from where I live, and I don't believe there were any actual fires in the past day. Unless some redneck was making a heck of a burn pile....