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Aripuanã fire, 1 September 2022 Aripuanã

Out · last detection 12 Sept 2022, 04:53 UTC

The fire started on 1 September 2022 in Aripuanã, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,465 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 664th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 181 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

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Suggestions: Aripuanã · 2019Aripuanã · 2018Aripuanã · 2020Aripuanã · 2021

Burnt area
7,465ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
1 Sept 2022 – 12 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
1 Sept
2022
Heat detections
598
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Average daily power
747MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Sept12 Sept
12 Sept 2022

How it evolved, day by day

1 Sept 2022 · 3 MW · 1 2 Sept 2022 · 167 MW · 7 3 Sept 2022 · 200 MW · 13 4 Sept 2022 · 833 MW · 70 5 Sept 2022 · 4,358 MW · 143 6 Sept 2022 · 2,872 MW · 220 7 Sept 2022 · 271 MW · 82 8 Sept 2022 · 163 MW · 22 9 Sept 2022 · 51 MW · 15 10 Sept 2022 · 11 MW · 6 11 Sept 2022 · 34 MW · 14 12 Sept 2022 · 6 MW · 5
1 Sept 3 Sept 5 Sept 7 Sept 9 Sept 11 Sept

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.7% of the area of London (75 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Aripuanã 25,766 inhabitants where it started
    7,516 ha
    0.3 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020
Built-up area0.88 ha
Residents≈ 60

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.88 hectares of built-up land and about 60 residents (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 25 Aug 2022
After · 19 Sept 2022

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 · Copernicus

On 6 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 404 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 238: 16 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak404 µg/m³
Days over the guideline16 days
PM10577 µg/m³
Optical depth3.29
3031123456789101112131415
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Aripuanã fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 September 2022 and 12 September 2022: 12 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 7,465 hectares (74.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Aripuanã (7,516 ha, 0.3 %).
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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 4 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 19 September 2022 → 12 September 2022.
  2. Start date: 25 August 2022 → 1 September 2022.
  3. Last day with fire: 12 September 2022 → 19 September 2022.
  4. Start date: 1 September 2022 → 25 August 2022.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.