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Wildfire near Vargem Bonita

Ended · 380 hectares (939 acres) · Started · Updated

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380Hectares939Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Aug 18, 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

A moderate heat signature is currently being picked up by satellites over an active wildfire near Vargem Bonita, Brazil, which has grown to encompass 380 hectares (939 acres) since it started on August 18, 2026. Monitoring systems have registered 16 heat detections in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current extent of the spread in a region where the typical fire season runs from August to October.

This incident unfolds within a broader national landscape where 3,040,278 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 90% below the country's two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 380 ha (939 acres) — around 3.8 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 8,086,252 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 74% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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