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Wildfire near Guajará (Sep 16)

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

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330Hectares815Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 16, 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

Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Guajará, Brazil, where 43 thermal detections over the past 48 hours trace the local spread of the front. Having started on September 15, 2026, the blaze has consumed 1,030 hectares, which equals 2,545 acres.

This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Meanwhile, the broader national landscape shows 5,624,790 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 82% 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 9,451,103 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 69% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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