Started on Aug 21, 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
Active fires nearby1 · 100 km
Burning near Cachoeira, Brazil, an active wildfire has expanded to 580 hectares (1,433 acres) since its start on August 17, 2026. Advancing at an average daily growth of approximately 290 hectares per day over its two days of burning, satellites are picking up an intense heat signature alongside 23 heat detections in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours.
This incident occurs during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Despite active blazes like this one, national figures show that 3,040,278 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a total that is 90 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 450 ha (1,112 acres) — around 4.5 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 7,956,803 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 74% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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