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Canabrava do Norte fire, 1 August 2019 Canabrava do Norte, Luciara

Out · last detection 16 Aug 2019, 16:43 UTC

The fire started on 1 August 2019 in Canabrava do Norte, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,638 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 942th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 399 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

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Burnt area
5,638ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
16days
1 Aug 2019 – 16 Aug 2019
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
1 Aug
2019
Heat detections
165
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index
Average daily power
108MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Aug16 Aug
16 Aug 2019

How it evolved, day by day

2 Aug 2019 · 157 MW · 18 3 Aug 2019 · 25 MW · 3 6 Aug 2019 · 257 MW · 36 7 Aug 2019 · 76 MW · 20 8 Aug 2019 · 88 MW · 19 9 Aug 2019 · 177 MW · 9 10 Aug 2019 · 113 MW · 16 11 Aug 2019 · 262 MW · 27 12 Aug 2019 · 12 MW · 4 13 Aug 2019 · 77 MW · 7 14 Aug 2019 · 9 MW · 5 16 Aug 2019 · 39 MW · 1
2 Aug 6 Aug 8 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug 14 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

37°high
48km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 373 ha in 2016, 2,201 ha in 2017.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 3.6% of the area of London (56 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

  1. Canabrava do Norte 4,485 inhabitants where it started
    5,602 ha reached on 2 Aug
    1.6 %
  2. Luciara 2,509 inhabitants
    68 ha reached on 2 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 2020
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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)
1 Aug 35.7 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
2 Aug 36.4 °C 27 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
3 Aug 34.0 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Aug 34.6 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
5 Aug 35.0 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Aug 34.4 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Aug 33.8 °C 22 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
8 Aug 34.2 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Aug 35.0 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
10 Aug 34.3 °C 20 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Aug 35.7 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Aug 36.6 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
13 Aug 36.9 °C 22 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Aug 36.7 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
15 Aug 36.1 °C 24 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
16 Aug 35.4 °C 27 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
17 Aug after 34.8 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Aug after 35.6 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Aug after 36.4 °C 24 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Aug after 37.5 °C 21 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
21 Aug after 38.0 °C 21 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
22 Aug after 37.6 °C 25 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
23 Aug after 36.9 °C 26 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Aug after 35.9 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
25 Aug after 35.7 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
26 Aug after 36.7 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Jul 2019
After · 23 Aug 2019

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 · 165Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Canabrava do Norte fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 August 2019 to 16 August 2019 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 6 August 2019 to 14 August 2019.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,638 hectares (56.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Canabrava do Norte (5,602 ha, 1.6 %); Luciara (68 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.9 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, 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.
  1. Last day with fire: 14 August 2019 → 16 August 2019.
  2. Start date: 6 August 2019 → 1 August 2019.

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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 6 August 2019 to 14 August 2019. 165 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 2020, 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.