Campinápolis fire, 2 August 2026 Campinápolis, Santo Antônio do Leste, Paranatinga
The fire started on 2 August 2026 in Campinápolis, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 35 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 90,128 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 23th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 3 in Brazil in 2026, of 749.
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- Burnt area
- 90,128ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 35days
- 2 Aug 2026 – 5 Sept 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 2 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 2,238
- in a single hotspot: 312 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 877MW
- 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 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
89% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 24,406 ha in 2016, 31,322 ha in 2017, 30,150 ha in 2018, 27,600 ha in 2019, 23,061 ha in 2020, 26,878 ha in 2021, 34,033 ha in 2022, 4,539 ha in 2023, 36,614 ha in 2024, 16,272 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 80,459 ha that had burned before.
- 10,592 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2018 11,557 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 10,126 ha Campinápolis fire, September 2019 11,700 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 9,965 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2025 11,429 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 9,306 ha Nova Xavantina fire, August 2024 12,906 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 8,970 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2022 9,922 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 8,851 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2024 13,977 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 8,677 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2017 9,605 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,879 ha Campinápolis fire, August 2020 7,421 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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84,893 ha reached on 2 Aug14 %
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Santo Antônio do Leste 4,099 inhabitants5,726 ha reached on 6 Aug1.7 %
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Paranatinga 26,423 inhabitants96 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 2.1 hectares of built-up land and about 3,500 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 Aug | 34.2 °C | 21 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 3 Aug | 33.2 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 4 Aug | 32.9 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 5 Aug | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 6 Aug | 34.5 °C | 22 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 7 Aug | 35.0 °C | 24 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 8 Aug | 35.6 °C | 26 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 9 Aug | 36.0 °C | 24 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 10 Aug | 37.7 °C | 16 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 11 Aug | 37.0 °C | 16 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 12 Aug | 35.2 °C | 18 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 13 Aug | 34.7 °C | 20 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 14 Aug | 34.8 °C | 21 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 15 Aug | 35.5 °C | 20 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 16 Aug | 37.3 °C | 16 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 17 Aug | 35.9 °C | 20 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 18 Aug | 35.3 °C | 22 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 19 Aug | 35.0 °C | 24 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 20 Aug | 36.2 °C | 20 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 21 Aug | 35.7 °C | 24 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 22 Aug | 36.0 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 23 Aug | 37.1 °C | 17 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 24 Aug | 37.2 °C | 16 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 25 Aug | 38.5 °C | 17 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 26 Aug | 37.5 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 27 Aug | 36.9 °C | 24 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 28 Aug | 37.3 °C | 23 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 29 Aug | 37.0 °C | 23 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 30 Aug | 39.3 °C | 16 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 31 Aug | 39.7 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 1 Sept | 38.0 °C | 26 % | 60 km/h | 0.4 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 2 Sept | 35.2 °C | 37 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 3 Sept | 37.5 °C | 28 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 4 Sept | 37.8 °C | 28 % | 37 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very high 40 |
| 5 Sept | 34.1 °C | 37 % | 23 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 27 |
| 6 Sept after | 33.6 °C | 38 % | 27 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 26 |
| 7 Sept after | 33.5 °C | 43 % | 33 km/h | 4.4 mm | Low 9 |
| 8 Sept after | 33.8 °C | 40 % | 25 km/h | 1.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 9 Sept after | 32.4 °C | 47 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 10 Sept after | 35.0 °C | 31 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 11 Sept after | 37.4 °C | 20 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 12 Sept after | 37.2 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 13 Sept after | 37.7 °C | 18 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 14 Sept after | 36.8 °C | 24 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 15 Sept after | 36.8 °C | 26 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 16 Sept after | 36.7 °C | 28 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 17 Sept after | 37.3 °C | 27 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 18 Sept after | 38.6 °C | 20 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
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 19 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 149 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 70: 4.7 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 · 2,238Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 12,906 haNova XavantinaAugust 2024 · 22 days · 20 km away
- 11,557 haCampinápolisAugust 2018 · 12 days · 22 km away
- 13,977 haCampinápolis4 August 2024 · 33 days · 23 km away
- 11,700 haCampinápolisSeptember 2019 · 6 days · 23 km away
- 11,429 haCampinápolisAugust 2025 · 22 days · 23 km away
- 9,922 haCampinápolis12 August 2022 · 18 days · 23 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Campinápolis fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 August 2026 to 5 September 2026 (35 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 August 2026 to 1 September 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 90,128 hectares (901.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Campinápolis (84,893 ha, 14 %); Santo Antônio do Leste (5,726 ha, 1.7 %); Paranatinga (96 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 39.7 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 60 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 5 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 9 August 2026 to 1 September 2026. 2,238 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.