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Wildfires in Brazil

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Regions

• Acre153 fires
• Alagoas14 fires
• Amapá79 fires
• Amazonas683 fires
• Bahia400 fires
• Ceará82 fires
• Distrito Federal10 fires
• Espírito Santo27 fires
• Goiás125 fires
• Maranhão367 fires
• Mato Grosso157 fires
• Mato Grosso do Sulno fires now
• Minas Gerais327 fires
• Paranáno fires now
• Paraíba25 fires
• Pará1,101 fires
• Pernambuco73 fires
• Piauí201 fires
• Rio Grande do Norte23 fires
• Rio Grande do Sulno fires now
• Rio de Janeiro6 fires
• Rondônia46 fires
• Roraima128 fires
• Santa Catarinano fires now
• Sergipe10 fires
• São Paulo16 fires
• Tocantins228 fires

The 300 most powerful are listed below.

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 3,259,890 km² of Brazil at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 613,680 km², ranking 3rd of 200 countries.

Year by year

The busiest year was 2015, with 747,520 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 427,130 km². The 2021–2025 average is 11% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

August, September and October together hold 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 September 2020, with detections in 16,157 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 3,259,890 km² with at least one detection, 38% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detection	km²	Share
1 year	1,295,230	40%
2 years	716,530	22%
3 to 5 years	916,310	28%
6 to 10 years	315,010	10%
11 years or more	16,800	0.5%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -6.25, -44.25 and holds 0.3% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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Year	Detected km²	Fire-days
2012	738,850	910,670
2013	489,150	553,391
2014	623,550	744,557
2015	747,520	975,936
2016	635,410	765,040
2017	674,520	852,152
2018	466,890	554,874
2019	645,540	800,989
2020	684,990	885,069
2021	587,230	727,601
2022	591,200	788,140
2023	584,650	780,265
2024	694,850	947,463
2025	427,130	497,989

Nearby countries

• Venezuela125,480 km² in an average year
• Bolivia90,610 km² in an average year
• Argentina83,750 km² in an average year
• Colombia72,700 km² in an average year
• Paraguay52,970 km² in an average year
• Peru49,920 km² in an average year
• How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

Travel checks here

Fire near holiday places, with the sea, the sun and the bathing water: Florianopolis · Fortaleza · Maceio · Natal · Porto de Galinhas · Recife · Rio de Janeiro · Salvador

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What sits behind each of these fires

Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.