Started on Sep 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 nearby3 · 100 km
Burning with an intense satellite-detected heat signature, an active wildfire near Dianópolis, Brazil, has consumed 500 hectares (1,236 acres) since it started on September 21, 2026. Over its two days of burning, the blaze has maintained an approximate average daily growth of 250 hectares per day.
Orbiting satellites have picked up 25 heat signatures clustering nearby over the last 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the fire across the area. This incident occurs within the region's typical fire season, which spans from August to October.
This fire contributes to a broader national total of 6,875,658 hectares burned across Brazil so far in 2026, a figure that remains 78% below the country's two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 500 ha (1,236 acres) — around 5.0 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 8,389,376 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 73% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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