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Wildfire near Barão de Grajaú

Ended · 350 hectares (865 acres) · Started · Updated

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350Hectares865Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Aug 12, 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

An active wildfire spanning 350 hectares, or 865 acres, is currently burning near Barão de Grajaú, Brazil, after starting on August 12, 2026. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the front, while 14 heat detections over the past 48 hours cluster nearby to map the spread.

This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. On a broader scale, total fire activity remains low, with 2,580,053 hectares burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure 92% below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 350 ha (865 acres) — around 3.5 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 7,422,439 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 76% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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