How long did the Campinápolis fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 September 2017 to 12 September 2017 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 September 2017 to 6 September 2017.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,531 hectares (35.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Campinápolis (3,555 ha, 0.6 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, class Extreme.

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 · 2017-09-01 → 2017-09-12

Campinápolis fire, 1 September 2017 Campinápolis

Out · last detection 13 Sept 2017, 17:45 UTC

The fire started on 1 September 2017 in Campinápolis, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,531 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1641th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 779 in Brazil in 2017, of 994.

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Burnt area: 3,531ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 12days; 1 Sept 2017 – 12 Sept 2017
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 1 Sept; 2017
Heat detections: 120; in a single hotspot: 126 MW
Danger at start: 39; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 121MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Sept12 Sept

Play back 13 Sept 2017

How it evolved, day by day

1 Sept 2 Sept 3 Sept 5 Sept 8 Sept 10 Sept 12 Sept

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

The weather it burned in

38°high

44km/h · peak gust

16%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

26% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 924 ha in 2016.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2.2% of the area of London (35 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

Campinápolis 15,347 inhabitants where it started

3,555 ha reached on 1 Sept

0.6 %

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 area0.19 ha

Residents≈ 150

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.19 hectares of built-up land and about 150 residents (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)
25 Aug	34.2 °C	29 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
26 Aug	35.9 °C	19 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
27 Aug	36.8 °C	23 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
28 Aug	36.4 °C	22 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
29 Aug	36.0 °C	25 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
30 Aug	37.2 °C	20 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
31 Aug	37.0 °C	19 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
1 Sept	37.7 °C	16 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
2 Sept	35.7 °C	21 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
3 Sept	34.2 °C	25 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
4 Sept	33.6 °C	28 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
5 Sept	34.1 °C	22 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
6 Sept	35.0 °C	22 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
7 Sept	36.1 °C	27 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
8 Sept	37.4 °C	23 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
9 Sept	37.2 °C	27 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
10 Sept	36.6 °C	22 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
11 Sept	37.0 °C	25 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
12 Sept	37.0 °C	28 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
13 Sept after	35.7 °C	26 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 50
14 Sept after	36.3 °C	22 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
15 Sept after	36.4 °C	25 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
16 Sept after	35.1 °C	27 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
17 Sept after	34.1 °C	23 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
18 Sept after	36.0 °C	24 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
19 Sept after	37.1 °C	23 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
20 Sept after	36.4 °C	26 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
21 Sept after	32.7 °C	29 %	37 km/h	0.8 mm	High 34
22 Sept after	34.7 °C	30 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
23 Sept after	35.3 °C	30 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Aug 2017

After · 19 Sept 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 · 120Every 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 Campinápolis fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 September 2017 to 12 September 2017 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 September 2017 to 6 September 2017.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,531 hectares (35.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Campinápolis (3,555 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 53, class Extreme.
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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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 6 September 2017 → 12 September 2017.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 1 September 2017 to 6 September 2017. 120 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
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.

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.

Where it burned