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Wildfires in São Paulo
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 106,940 km² of São Paulo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 13,970 km², ranking 14th 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 2024, with 20,250 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 7,380 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% 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.
July, August and September together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 August 2024, with detections in 1,722 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 106,940 km² with at least one detection, 20% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 58,940 | 55% |
| 2 years | 26,620 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 19,100 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,150 | 2.0% |
| 11 years or more | 119 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -23.25, -46.75 and holds 4.3% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 17,270 | 20,823 |
| 2013 | 14,680 | 17,870 |
| 2014 | 18,760 | 21,811 |
| 2015 | 9,440 | 11,040 |
| 2016 | 14,300 | 15,720 |
| 2017 | 15,010 | 16,458 |
| 2018 | 11,690 | 12,824 |
| 2019 | 12,440 | 14,012 |
| 2020 | 19,600 | 22,347 |
| 2021 | 18,250 | 20,944 |
| 2022 | 7,380 | 9,481 |
| 2023 | 7,510 | 9,401 |
| 2024 | 20,250 | 23,339 |
| 2025 | 9,010 | 10,380 |
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 Janeiro312 km
- Paraná337 km
- Minas Gerais415 km
- Santa Catarina657 km
- Espírito Santo749 km
- Rio Grande do Sul777 km