Wildfire near Agrovila do Projeto de Assentamento União do Norte (Sep 15), Brazil (2026)

Wildfire near Agrovila do Projeto de Assentamento União do Norte (Sep 15) — Sentinel-2 true color

Wildfire near Agrovila do Projeto de Assentamento União do Norte (Sep 15) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego)

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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

Drag to compare: normal photo on the left, heat brought out on the right.

Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

The story so far

About 40 km southeast of Agrovila do Projeto de Assentamento União do Norte.

Summary written on Sep 16, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.

Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Agrovila do Projeto de Assentamento União do Norte, Brazil, with twenty heat detections clustered nearby over the last 48 hours. The blaze, which started on September 15, 2026, has consumed 430 hectares, or 1,063 acres.

This incident occurs within the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Despite this local activity, the broader national landscape shows a different trend: 5,624,790 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking an 82% decrease below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 430 ha (1,063 acres) — around 4.3 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.

Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.