Wildfire near Cocos
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🟢 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 the active wildfire burning near Cocos, Brazil, where 13 separate heat detections have been registered over the past 48 hours. The blaze, which covers an estimated 330 hectares, or 815 acres, began on August 11, 2026, and continues to burn actively through the region.
This incident occurs during the typical fire season for the area, which runs annually from August to October. Despite the ongoing activity near Cocos, the broader national landscape shows a different trend: 2,512,384 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 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 4,909,573 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 84% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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