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Fire near Centenário, Brazil, 10 October 2026

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What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 16 km of this fire: 131 in daylight, 8 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
Coastline and borders from Natural Earth at 110 m — regional context, not a survey. Each layer above is its own address, so a view can be shared.
A fire was first detected here at 15:58 UTC on 10 October 2026, 37 km S of Centenário in Tocantins, Brazil. At its most recent pass it was putting out 1,471 megawatts of radiative power across 139 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 11.9 km of ground.
No settlement in our index has population recorded within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 12:48, which is the early afternoon. VIIRS passes about 01:30 and 13:30 local solar, so this is when the satellite looked: the fire began somewhere in the twelve hours before.
It was seen across 11.8 hours of satellite passes.
6% of the detections came from the night pass.
What this ground has done before
This ground has burned before. Our archive records fire here in 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, across 24 days, most recently on 2024-09-02.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 16 km/h from the NE, carrying smoke and embers towards the SW. Temperature 35°C, relative humidity 36%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 10 km/h from the NNW. These are model figures at roughly 10 km resolution, not a reading taken at the fire.
How it compares
By radiative power this is the 90th largest fire burning anywhere on Earth in the current window.
Where analysis would go
Our screening pass scores this fire 0.40. The score ranks where analysis is worth spending.
Read from satellite detections and weather. No roads, no land cover, no ground visit.
What else this page knows
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A detection is a heat signature at 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite. Cloud, smoke and canopy hide fires; each satellite passes twice a day. Not for evacuation or life-safety decisions — follow your local fire service.
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