Wildfire near Boa Esperança
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from an active wildfire burning near Boa Esperança, Brazil, where the fire front has reached 480 hectares (1,186 acres) since it started on September 3, 2026. Monitoring systems have detected 23 heat signatures clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the incident.
This event unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Meanwhile, the broader national landscape shows 4,879,616 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 84% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Brazil for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 480 ha (1,186 acres) — about 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 4,879,616 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 84% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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