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Wildfire near Brejo do Salto (Aug 12)

Ended · 330 hectares (815 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
330Hectares815Acres3Days 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

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Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from an active wildfire near Brejo do Salto, Brazil, where 15 separate heat detections have clustered nearby over the past 48 hours to reveal how far the front has spread. Having started on August 12, 2026, the blaze has consumed 330 hectares, which translates to 815 acres.

This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Meanwhile, the broader national landscape shows 2,580,053 hectares burned so far in 2026, tracking 92% below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 330 ha (815 acres) — around 3.3 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 5,428,854 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 82% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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