Except for anthropogenic emissions of biofuel combustion and fossil‐fuel combustion, biomass burning including wildfires and agricultural residue fires in Asia is an important contributor to the global Black Carbon loading in the atmosphere [Streets et al., 2001]. Measurements of fire from space are available from a number of sensors to detect when and where fire has occurred and to understand the fire’s impact on the land and atmosphere. We use here the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) data to profile fire location and fire‐site maps over eastern Asia, which are available as daily global fire counts for the March–December 2008 period.