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
Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from an active wildfire burning near Trairão, Brazil, where 16 distinct thermal anomalies have been detected over the past 48 hours. The blaze has scorched 330 hectares, which equals 815 acres, since it started on August 30, 2026. This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs annually from August to October.
Nationwide, the broader fire context shows a total of 4,183,372 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking an 86 percent decrease compared to 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 9,797,654 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 68% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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