Started on Aug 30, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Alto Boa Vista, Brazil, which has scorched 480 hectares (1,186 acres) since it started on August 30, 2026. Monitoring systems have registered 23 heat detections in the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread and activity of the fire front across the landscape.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Despite active blazes like the one in Alto Boa Vista, national figures show that 4,277,538 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that is 86% below the two-decade average for the country.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 480 ha (1,186 acres) — around 4.8 km².
Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.
The bigger picture in Brazil
Across Brazil, roughly 9,797,654 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 68% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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