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Wildfires in Mato Grosso
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 UTC
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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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 408,360 km² of Mato Grosso at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 70,190 km², ranking 3rd of 27 regions of Brazil.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2020, with 116,330 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 29,010 km². The 2021–2025 average is 14% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 September 2020, with detections in 5,793 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 408,360 km² with at least one detection, 33% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 175,620 | 43% |
| 2 years | 97,080 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 105,130 | 26% |
| 6 to 10 years | 28,500 | 7.0% |
| 11 years or more | 2,030 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -14.25, -53.25 and holds 1.4% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 74,080 | 105,831 |
| 2013 | 54,380 | 71,751 |
| 2014 | 70,710 | 98,803 |
| 2015 | 80,350 | 109,527 |
| 2016 | 75,260 | 99,001 |
| 2017 | 83,980 | 112,885 |
| 2018 | 46,760 | 62,151 |
| 2019 | 76,330 | 107,891 |
| 2020 | 116,330 | 172,809 |
| 2021 | 60,000 | 82,289 |
| 2022 | 66,180 | 105,379 |
| 2023 | 46,820 | 74,056 |
| 2024 | 102,530 | 155,285 |
| 2025 | 29,010 | 38,712 |
Other regions of Brazil
- Pará102,950 km² in an average year
- Maranhão74,700 km² in an average year
- Tocantins52,480 km² in an average year
- Piauí37,190 km² in an average year
- Bahia36,820 km² in an average year
- Minas Gerais34,920 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.
Nearby regions
- Tocantins507 km
- Goiás541 km
- Distrito Federal613 km
- Mato Grosso do Sul657 km
- Alto Paraguay, Paraguay886 km
- Bahia929 km