Wildfire near Gaúcha do Norte (Jul 22)
Imagery: Sentinel-2 SWIR (Copernicus) — infrared, sees through smoke. 🟢 vegetation · 🟤 burned · 🟠 active fire.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
An active wildfire spanning 130 hectares (321 acres) continues to burn near Gaúcha do Norte, Brazil, after starting on July 22, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up a moderate heat signature from the blaze.
Monitoring systems have registered five heat detections over the past 48 hours in the vicinity of the active fire.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 130 ha (321 acres) — around 1.3 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 4,983,632 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 84% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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