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Wildfire near Uruçuí (Aug 15)

Ended · 500 hectares (1,236 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
500Hectares1,236Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Aug 15, 2026.

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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

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🟠 orange = fire right now

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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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