The MODIS Aqua MYD14A2 Version 6.1 product provides an 8-day composite of thermal anomalies and active fire detections at 1 km spatial resolution as a Level-3 dataset. The gridded product represents the maximum value of individual fire pixel classes detected during the 8-day observation period. The dataset includes science data layers such as a fire mask identifying fire detections and pixel quality indicators that describe the reliability of the observations.