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Wildfires in Minas Gerais
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 272,370 km² of Minas Gerais at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 34,920 km², ranking 7th 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 2014, with 47,250 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 21,480 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.7% 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 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 October 2014, with detections in 1,931 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 272,370 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 152,960 | 56% |
| 2 years | 66,580 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 47,750 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 4,920 | 1.8% |
| 11 years or more | 159 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -20.75, -43.75 and holds 2.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 43,450 | 49,050 |
| 2013 | 26,620 | 30,094 |
| 2014 | 47,250 | 54,402 |
| 2015 | 37,890 | 44,651 |
| 2016 | 30,750 | 33,909 |
| 2017 | 34,790 | 38,986 |
| 2018 | 21,480 | 24,264 |
| 2019 | 38,720 | 44,284 |
| 2020 | 34,410 | 38,688 |
| 2021 | 43,730 | 51,237 |
| 2022 | 31,820 | 36,722 |
| 2023 | 29,110 | 34,616 |
| 2024 | 37,100 | 43,201 |
| 2025 | 31,790 | 36,898 |
Other regions of Brazil
- Pará102,950 km² in an average year
- Maranhão74,700 km² in an average year
- Mato Grosso70,190 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
- 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
- Rio de Janeiro222 km
- Espírito Santo368 km
- São Paulo415 km
- Distrito Federal698 km
- Paraná752 km
- Goiás819 km