Started on Aug 30, 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
Burning near Ribeiro Gonçalves in Brazil, an active wildfire has expanded across 750 hectares (1,853 acres) since it began on August 30, 2026. Across its two days of burning, the fire has maintained an average daily growth of approximately 375 hectares per day. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active front, alongside 32 heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the blaze during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October.
This incident unfolds within a broader national context where 4,406,757 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, a total that remains 86% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 750 ha (1,853 acres) — around 7.5 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 9,259,274 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 70% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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