NASA FIRMS · Rate Limits

Nasa Firms Rate Limits

Rate limiting details for the NASA FIRMS REST API. Limits are enforced per MAP_KEY across all endpoints. Large area or multi-day queries may consume more than one transaction.

Nasa Firms Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for NASA FIRMS on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition.

Tagged areas include NASA, Fire Detection, Satellite, MODIS, and VIIRS.

1 Limits
NASAFire DetectionSatelliteMODISVIIRSRemote SensingOpen DataEnvironmentalGeospatialScience

Limits

MAP_KEY
The 5,000 transaction limit applies per MAP_KEY per 10-minute rolling window. Queries covering large bounding boxes or multi-day ranges may count as multiple transactions depending on server resource consumption. Monitor usage to avoid temporary key suspension.

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