How long did the Campinaçu fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 October 2017 to 25 October 2017 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 6 October 2017 to 22 October 2017.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 9,798 hectares (98.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Campinaçu (7,882 ha, 4.0 %); Campinorte (1,370 ha, 1.3 %); Uruaçu (603 ha, 0.3 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very 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.

BR · Brazil · 2017-10-04 → 2017-10-25

Campinaçu fire, 4 October 2017 Campinaçu, Campinorte, Uruaçu

Out · last detection 25 Oct 2017, 16:18 UTC

The fire started on 4 October 2017 in Campinaçu, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 22 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,798 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 98th largest in Goiás since 2016 (of 548 with a page). Number 177 in Brazil in 2017, of 994.

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Suggestions: Campinorte · 2019 Formoso · 2019 Campinaçu · 2016 Campinaçu · 2025

Burnt area: 9,798ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 22days; 4 Oct 2017 – 25 Oct 2017
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 4 Oct; 2017
Heat detections: 358; in a single hotspot: 60 MW
Danger at start: 10; Low · FWI index
Average daily power: 125MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Oct25 Oct

Play back 25 Oct 2017

How it evolved, day by day

4 Oct 8 Oct 11 Oct 14 Oct 17 Oct 20 Oct 24 Oct

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

The weather it burned in

36°high

46km/h · peak gust

12%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.5 mm on 29 Oct.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 6.2% of the area of London (98 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

Campinaçu 3,708 inhabitants where it started

7,882 ha reached on 4 Oct

4.0 %
Campinorte 12,510 inhabitants

1,370 ha reached on 19 Oct

1.3 %
Uruaçu 42,546 inhabitants

603 ha reached on 10 Oct

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 2015

Built-up area0.22 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.22 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, 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

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)
4 Oct	31.5 °C	30 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
5 Oct	31.1 °C	27 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
6 Oct	32.1 °C	24 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
7 Oct	32.5 °C	19 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
8 Oct	32.2 °C	16 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
9 Oct	31.4 °C	25 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
10 Oct	33.5 °C	20 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
11 Oct	33.1 °C	12 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
12 Oct	33.3 °C	14 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
13 Oct	34.8 °C	13 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
14 Oct	35.9 °C	14 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
15 Oct	35.2 °C	22 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
16 Oct	33.5 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
17 Oct	32.7 °C	21 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
18 Oct	31.2 °C	22 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
19 Oct	33.1 °C	18 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
20 Oct	31.6 °C	25 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
21 Oct	33.3 °C	23 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
22 Oct	34.3 °C	21 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
23 Oct	34.0 °C	19 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
24 Oct	33.6 °C	17 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
25 Oct	34.1 °C	19 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
26 Oct after	33.2 °C	24 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
27 Oct after	29.8 °C	38 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
28 Oct after	30.2 °C	39 %	29 km/h	0.6 mm	High 27
29 Oct after	30.3 °C	40 %	27 km/h	2.5 mm	Low 11

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 27 Sept 2017

After · 1 Nov 2017

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 358Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Campinaçu fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 October 2017 to 25 October 2017 (22 days). The perimeter dates it from 6 October 2017 to 22 October 2017.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 9,798 hectares (98.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Campinaçu (7,882 ha, 4.0 %); Campinorte (1,370 ha, 1.3 %); Uruaçu (603 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very 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.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 6 October 2017 to 22 October 2017. 358 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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.

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