Wildfire near Triunfo
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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).
Burning near Triunfo, Brazil, an active 450-hectare (1,112-acre) wildfire that started on August 21, 2026, is generating a moderate heat signature according to satellite observations, with 18 thermal detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from August to October. Despite active blazes like the one near Triunfo, national figures show that 3,342,141 hectares have burned so far in 2026, placing the total burned area 89% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 450 ha (1,112 acres) — around 4.5 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 4,909,573 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 84% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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