How long did the Colniza fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 6 July 2024 to 16 September 2024 (73 days). The perimeter dates it from 11 July 2024 to 14 September 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 45,354 hectares (453.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Colniza (45,612 ha, 1.6 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.7 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very high.

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 · 2024-07-06 → 2024-09-16

Colniza fire, 6 July 2024 Colniza

Out · last detection 16 Sept 2024, 05:11 UTC

The fire started on 6 July 2024 in Colniza, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 73 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 45,354 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:

5,543 haColniza27 August 2024 · 10 days

It is the 54th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 53 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

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Burnt area: 45,354ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 73days; 6 Jul 2024 – 16 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 6 Jul; 2024
Heat detections: 4,440; in a single hotspot: 424 MW
Danger at start: 32; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 1.2GW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jul16 Sept

Play back 16 Sept 2024

How it evolved, day by day

6 Jul 22 Jul 5 Aug 14 Aug 23 Aug 1 Sept 10 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

39°high

37km/h · peak gust

21%lowest humidity

It had gone 44 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 19 Sept.

This area had burned before

89% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,853 ha in 2016, 3,697 ha in 2017, 280 ha in 2018, 3,304 ha in 2019, 3,080 ha in 2020, 1,946 ha in 2021, 44,004 ha in 2022, 21,543 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 40,276 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 29% of the area of London (454 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

Colniza where it started

45,612 ha reached on 6 Jul

1.6 %

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 2025

Built-up area0.30 ha

Residents≈ 50

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.30 hectares of built-up land and about 50 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)
6 Jul	35.7 °C	30 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
7 Jul	35.0 °C	33 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
8 Jul	34.8 °C	32 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
9 Jul	34.1 °C	37 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
10 Jul	33.6 °C	40 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
11 Jul	33.2 °C	46 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
12 Jul	34.5 °C	38 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
13 Jul	31.4 °C	43 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
14 Jul	31.9 °C	41 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
15 Jul	32.3 °C	37 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
16 Jul	33.7 °C	29 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
17 Jul	34.2 °C	30 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
18 Jul	34.3 °C	25 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
19 Jul	35.0 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
20 Jul	35.2 °C	27 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
21 Jul	35.5 °C	27 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
22 Jul	34.6 °C	28 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
23 Jul	34.5 °C	27 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
24 Jul	35.6 °C	27 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
25 Jul	35.5 °C	27 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
26 Jul	35.4 °C	29 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
27 Jul	34.6 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
28 Jul	35.4 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
29 Jul	35.6 °C	31 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
30 Jul	37.3 °C	24 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
31 Jul	36.3 °C	26 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
1 Aug	36.7 °C	25 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
2 Aug	36.4 °C	24 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
3 Aug	35.7 °C	29 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
4 Aug	36.1 °C	25 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
5 Aug	35.8 °C	24 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
6 Aug	35.7 °C	23 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
7 Aug	35.7 °C	27 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
8 Aug	37.2 °C	21 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
9 Aug	36.0 °C	25 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
10 Aug	30.6 °C	36 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
11 Aug	33.2 °C	31 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
12 Aug	33.9 °C	28 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
13 Aug	35.5 °C	22 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
14 Aug	36.4 °C	24 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
15 Aug	35.8 °C	35 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
16 Aug	35.0 °C	41 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	High 32
17 Aug	36.4 °C	33 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
18 Aug	37.2 °C	28 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
19 Aug	36.8 °C	28 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
20 Aug	36.4 °C	29 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
21 Aug	37.2 °C	25 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
22 Aug	36.9 °C	27 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
23 Aug	37.9 °C	24 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
24 Aug	36.2 °C	34 %	25 km/h	0.1 mm	High 36
25 Aug	34.7 °C	33 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
26 Aug	31.3 °C	36 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
27 Aug	35.0 °C	28 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
28 Aug	36.8 °C	23 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
29 Aug	35.4 °C	31 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
30 Aug	36.6 °C	22 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
31 Aug	37.5 °C	24 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
1 Sept	38.1 °C	22 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
2 Sept	37.9 °C	24 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
3 Sept	35.6 °C	34 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
4 Sept	36.7 °C	30 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
5 Sept	38.7 °C	21 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
6 Sept	36.4 °C	25 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
7 Sept	34.6 °C	29 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
8 Sept	36.8 °C	28 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
9 Sept	37.1 °C	28 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
10 Sept	36.5 °C	30 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
11 Sept	35.5 °C	46 %	30 km/h	0.2 mm	High 30
12 Sept	37.0 °C	32 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
13 Sept	36.9 °C	32 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
14 Sept	36.6 °C	34 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
15 Sept	35.0 °C	36 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
16 Sept	34.2 °C	41 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
17 Sept after	36.6 °C	33 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
18 Sept after	36.5 °C	33 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
19 Sept after	32.0 °C	58 %	26 km/h	2.8 mm	Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 29 Jun 2024

After · 23 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 25 July 2024 the air beside the fire reached 853 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 435: 29 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak853 µg/m³

Days over the guideline60 days

PM101,218 µg/m³

Optical depth4.08

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 · 4,440Every 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 Colniza fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 6 July 2024 to 16 September 2024 (73 days). The perimeter dates it from 11 July 2024 to 14 September 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 45,354 hectares (453.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Colniza (45,612 ha, 1.6 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.7 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very high.
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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 14 September 2024 → 16 September 2024.
25 October 2026 Start date: 11 July 2024 → 6 July 2024.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 11 July 2024 to 14 September 2024. 4,440 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.

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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