The ESA Fire Disturbance Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project (FireCCI) has produced maps of global burned area derived from satellite observations. The Medium Resolution Burned Area dataset version 6.0 (MRBA60) is the rebranding (with some minor corrections) of the Sentinel-3 SYN FireCCI v1.1 (FireCCIS311) dataset. Its grid product contains gridded data on global burned area and is based on surface reflectance data from the SLSTR instrument (reprojected to the OLCI grid in the Synergy (SYN) product) onboard the Sentinel-3 A&B satellites. This information is complemented by VIIRS thermal information. This dataset contains the same information as FireCCIS311 except for the period of July and August 2022, when some omission errors due to the lack of VIIRS information were solved in the MRBA60 dataset.

MRBA60 is available at CEDA for the years 2019 to 2024, and its production continues as part of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S, https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-fire-burned-area).

This gridded dataset has been derived from the MRBA60 pixel product (also available) by summarising its burned area information into a regular grid covering the Earth at 0.25 x 0.25 degrees resolution and at monthly temporal resolution. Information on burned area is included in 22 individual quantities: sum of burned area, standard error, fraction of burnable area, fraction of observed area, and the burned area for 18 land cover classes, as defined by the Copernicus Climate Change Initiative (C3S) Land Cover v2.1.1 product.