Apuí fire, 14 August 2026 Apuí
The fire started on 14 August 2026 in Apuí, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 21 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,789 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 55th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 140 in Brazil in 2026, of 747.
- Burnt area
- 8,789ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 21days
- 14 Aug 2026 – 3 Sept 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 14 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 599
- in a single hotspot: 831 MW
- Danger at start
- 22
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 13.0GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 4 Sept.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 100 ha in 2016, 1,018 ha in 2017, 1,007 ha in 2018, 1,406 ha in 2019, 2,972 ha in 2020, 1,388 ha in 2021, 7,792 ha in 2022, 1,324 ha in 2023, 9,804 ha in 2024, 751 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 8,842 ha that had burned before.
- 7,940 ha Apuí fire, July 2024 39,405 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,999 ha Apuí fire, July 2022 8,322 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,495 ha Apuí fire, August 2022 6,321 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,021 ha Apuí fire, August 2020 5,096 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 769 ha Apuí fire, August 2023 3,088 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 751 ha Apuí fire, August 2025 5,992 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 496 ha Apuí fire, August 2022 8,041 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 293 ha Apuí fire, July 2019 14,596 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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8,835 ha reached on 14 Aug0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug | 35.8 °C | 31 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 15 Aug | 36.4 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 16 Aug | 35.5 °C | 32 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 17 Aug | 35.2 °C | 40 % | 43 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 28 |
| 18 Aug | 34.7 °C | 44 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 19 Aug | 36.0 °C | 37 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 20 Aug | 36.3 °C | 34 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 21 Aug | 36.9 °C | 30 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 22 Aug | 36.8 °C | 28 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 23 Aug | 30.0 °C | 66 % | 25 km/h | 3.9 mm | Very low 4 |
| 24 Aug | 34.3 °C | 46 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 25 Aug | 37.2 °C | 27 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 26 Aug | 35.7 °C | 39 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 27 Aug | 33.8 °C | 50 % | 31 km/h | 3.2 mm | Low 7 |
| 28 Aug | 35.3 °C | 42 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 29 Aug | 36.2 °C | 35 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 30 Aug | 35.9 °C | 39 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 31 Aug | 36.2 °C | 38 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 1 Sept | 35.6 °C | 43 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 2 Sept | 36.0 °C | 41 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 3 Sept | 33.7 °C | 54 % | 24 km/h | 0.5 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 4 Sept after | 34.0 °C | 51 % | 25 km/h | 1.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 23 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 924 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 336: 22 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 599Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Apuí fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 August 2026 and 3 September 2026: 21 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,789 hectares (87.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Apuí (8,835 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Brazil (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 193
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Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.