Wildfire near Luis Eduardo Magalhães (Aug 26)
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Fire (SWIR)
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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).
An active wildfire spanning 380 hectares (939 acres) is currently burning near Luis Eduardo Magalhães, Brazil, having started on August 26, 2026. Operating within a region where the typical fire season runs from August to October, satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the blaze, accompanied by 18 heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours.
This incident unfolds against a broader national backdrop where 4,028,111 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 87% below the two-decade average for the country.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 380 ha (939 acres) — around 3.8 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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