How long did the Campos Lindos fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 August 2024 to 8 September 2024 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 August 2024 to 6 September 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,081 hectares (40.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Campos Lindos (2,235 ha, 0.7 %); Recursolândia (1,546 ha, 0.7 %); Balsas (328 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, 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 · 2024-08-28 → 2024-09-08

Campos Lindos fire, August 2024 Campos Lindos, Recursolândia, Balsas

Out · last detection 8 Sept 2024, 16:56 UTC

The fire started on 28 August 2024 in Campos Lindos, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,081 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 798th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1243 with a page). Number 888 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

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Suggestions: Recursolândia · 2020

Burnt area: 4,081ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 12days; 28 Aug 2024 – 8 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 28 Aug; 2024
Heat detections: 125; in a single hotspot: 190 MW
Danger at start: 64; Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power: 264MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Aug8 Sept

Play back 8 Sept 2024

How it evolved, day by day

29 Aug 31 Aug 2 Sept 3 Sept 4 Sept 6 Sept 8 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

54km/h · peak gust

11%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

83% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 990 ha in 2017, 1,030 ha in 2020, 2,059 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,375 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2.6% of the area of London (41 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

Campos Lindos 8,653 inhabitants where it started

2,235 ha reached on 29 Aug

0.7 %
Recursolândia 3,421 inhabitants

1,546 ha reached on 1 Sept

0.7 %
Balsas 101,767 inhabitants

328 ha reached on 29 Aug

0.0 %

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 2025

Built-up area3.4 ha

Residents≈ 30

Inside the perimeter there were about 3.4 hectares of built-up land and about 30 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	Danger (FWI)
28 Aug	36.1 °C	14 %	54 km/h	Extreme 64
29 Aug	35.0 °C	18 %	53 km/h	Extreme 62
30 Aug	35.0 °C	24 %	50 km/h	Extreme 57
31 Aug	35.2 °C	24 %	39 km/h	Very high 49
1 Sept	35.6 °C	23 %	44 km/h	Extreme 52
2 Sept	36.4 °C	15 %	41 km/h	Extreme 54
3 Sept	36.7 °C	19 %	36 km/h	Very high 50
4 Sept	38.2 °C	12 %	40 km/h	Extreme 58
5 Sept	37.9 °C	11 %	38 km/h	Extreme 56
6 Sept	37.3 °C	17 %	42 km/h	Extreme 57
7 Sept	37.3 °C	19 %	42 km/h	Extreme 57
8 Sept	37.4 °C	18 %	46 km/h	Extreme 60
9 Sept after	36.2 °C	20 %	50 km/h	Extreme 61
10 Sept after	36.6 °C	19 %	45 km/h	Extreme 58
11 Sept after	37.1 °C	21 %	47 km/h	Extreme 58
12 Sept after	37.3 °C	22 %	49 km/h	Extreme 60
13 Sept after	37.4 °C	19 %	48 km/h	Extreme 59
14 Sept after	36.9 °C	20 %	45 km/h	Extreme 57
15 Sept after	37.5 °C	20 %	44 km/h	Extreme 57
16 Sept after	38.2 °C	21 %	39 km/h	Extreme 53
17 Sept after	38.8 °C	19 %	38 km/h	Extreme 54
18 Sept after	38.2 °C	21 %	44 km/h	Extreme 58

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 21 Aug 2024

After · 15 Sept 2024

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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 1 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1023 µg/m³

Optical depth0.31

WHO 15

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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 · 125Every 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

Other fires nearby

11,753 haRecursolândia9 September 2020 · 13 days · 21 km away

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Campos Lindos fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 August 2024 to 8 September 2024 (12 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 August 2024 to 6 September 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,081 hectares (40.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Campos Lindos (2,235 ha, 0.7 %); Recursolândia (1,546 ha, 0.7 %); Balsas (328 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, 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 ›

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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 2024 → 8 September 2024.

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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 28 August 2024 to 6 September 2024. 125 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.

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