Campinápolis fire, September 2025 Campinápolis, Nova Xavantina
The fire started on 2 September 2025 in Campinápolis, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 20 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,429 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 397th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 99 in Brazil in 2025, of 714.
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- Burnt area
- 11,429ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 20days
- 2 Sept 2025 – 21 Sept 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 2 Sept
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 234
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Danger at start
- 46
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 142MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 22 Sept.
This area had burned before
99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,569 ha in 2016, 7,560 ha in 2017, 8,470 ha in 2018, 8,681 ha in 2019, 6,405 ha in 2020, 5,841 ha in 2021, 8,288 ha in 2022, 2,083 ha in 2023, 7,076 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 11,336 ha that had burned before.
- 8,681 ha Campinápolis fire, September 2019 11,700 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 8,411 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2018 11,557 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 8,106 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2022 9,922 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 7,283 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2017 9,605 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 6,658 ha Nova Xavantina fire, August 2024 12,906 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,397 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2020 7,421 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,826 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2016 3,266 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 415 ha Campinápolis fire, September 2024 4,715 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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11,466 ha1.9 %
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Nova Xavantina 24,345 inhabitants38 ha0.0 %
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 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 0.23 hectares of built-up land and about 1,000 residents (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept | 35.9 °C | 23 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 3 Sept | 35.3 °C | 23 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 4 Sept | 35.3 °C | 23 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 5 Sept | 35.9 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 6 Sept | 35.7 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 7 Sept | 37.2 °C | 18 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 8 Sept | 37.7 °C | 18 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 9 Sept | 36.6 °C | 21 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 10 Sept | 37.6 °C | 20 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 11 Sept | 39.0 °C | 13 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 12 Sept | 39.6 °C | 12 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 13 Sept | 37.5 °C | 20 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 14 Sept | 35.5 °C | 32 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 15 Sept | 36.8 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 16 Sept | 35.1 °C | 32 % | 27 km/h | 1.7 mm | High 26 |
| 17 Sept | 33.5 °C | 35 % | 23 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 25 |
| 18 Sept | 35.7 °C | 29 % | 30 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 35 |
| 19 Sept | 34.2 °C | 36 % | 20 km/h | 2.6 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 20 Sept | 31.5 °C | 49 % | 27 km/h | 4.7 mm | Very low 5 |
| 21 Sept | 34.5 °C | 38 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 22 |
| 22 Sept after | 33.0 °C | 47 % | 38 km/h | 2.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
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 13 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 35 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.8 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 · 0Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 11,700 haCampinápolisSeptember 2019 · 6 days · 1 km away
- 11,557 haCampinápolisAugust 2018 · 12 days · 1 km away
- 12,906 haNova XavantinaAugust 2024 · 22 days · 4 km away
- 90,128 haCampinápolis2 August 2026 · 35 days · 23 km away
- 13,977 haCampinápolis4 August 2024 · 33 days · 27 km away
- 10,821 haNova XavantinaAugust 2022 · 12 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Campinápolis fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 September 2025 and 21 September 2025: 20 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 11,429 hectares (114.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Campinápolis (11,466 ha, 1.9 %); Nova Xavantina (38 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 39.6 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 40 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.
Emergency number: 193 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 31 August 2025 → 2 September 2025.
- Start date: 2 September 2025 → 31 August 2025.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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.
- 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 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.