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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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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
The story so far
About 25 km southwest of Nova Nazaré.
Summary written on Jul 25, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Burning near Nova Nazaré, Brazil, an active wildfire has scorched 250 hectares, or 618 acres, since it started on July 24, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up an intense heat signature from the blaze.
With 13 thermal detections registered over the last 48 hours, monitoring systems indicate that the active fire front continues to burn with significant energy.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 4 days. In total it burned about 250 ha (618 acres) — around 2.5 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.
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 10,668,181 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 65% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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