Started on Aug 15, 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 an intense heat signature across twenty distinct detections over the past forty-eight hours near Uruçuí, Brazil, mapping the aggressive spread of an active wildfire that has now consumed 500 hectares (1,236 acres). Burning within a region where the typical fire season spans from August to October, the blaze began on August 15, 2026.
This incident unfolds against a remarkably subdued broader fire landscape across the country, where 2,684,309 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a significant 91 percent decrease below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 500 ha (1,236 acres) — around 5.0 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 7,720,990 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 75% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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