Wildfire near Paranã
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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).
Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from an active wildfire burning near Paranã in Brazil, which has scorched 550 hectares (1,359 acres) since it started on August 22, 2026. Orbiting sensors have detected 28 heat signatures clustered nearby in the last 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the fire front across the landscape.
This blaze unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs annually from August to October. The wider context reveals that 3,588,906 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 88% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 300 ha (741 acres) — around 3.0 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 4,879,616 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 84% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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