Started on Aug 18, 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
An active wildfire spanning 330 hectares (815 acres) near Peixoto de Azevedo, Brazil, has been burning since August 18, 2026, amid the region's typical fire season that runs from August to October. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the fire front, accompanied by 13 heat detections over the last 48 hours that trace the spread of the active blaze.
This incident unfolds within a broader national context where 3,135,795 hectares have burned so far in 2026, a figure that remains 90 percent below the country's 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 7,720,990 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 75% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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