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Wildfire near Paranorte

Ended · 400 hectares (988 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
400Hectares988Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Oct 1, 2026.

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31Active4,923Hotspots 48h14,880Hectares
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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

A moderate heat signature is currently being picked up by satellites over an active wildfire spanning 400 hectares (988 acres) near Paranorte, Brazil. Having started on October 1, 2026, the blaze has generated 16 heat detections from NASA FIRMS over the past 48 hours, illustrating the clustering of heat signatures nearby as the fire spreads across the landscape.

This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. At the national level, broader tracking indicates that 7,956,803 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 74% below the country's two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 400 ha (988 acres) — around 4.0 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 9,594,709 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 69% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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