Burned area
satellite only3,623ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 23 Aug 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
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BR · Brazil · –
Conceição do Tocantins fire, 23 August 2022 Conceição do Tocantins
Out · last detection 4 Sept 2022, 16:37 UTC
The fire started on 23 August 2022 in Conceição do Tocantins, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,623 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 780th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1036 with a page). Number 480 in Brazil in 2022, of 682.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only13days
23 Aug 2022 to 4 Sept 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 4 Sept 2022, 16:37 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only23 Aug 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 23 Aug 2022
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only116
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 87 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 23 Aug 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only446MW
Total radiative power on 4 September 2022; hotspots that day: 23.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 4 Sept 2022
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model53.2FWI · extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 60.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 23 Aug 2022, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model35.8°C · 21% RH
High of 35.8 °C and minimum humidity of 21% on 4 September 2022; gusts of 44 km/h on 30 August 2022.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 23 Aug 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logStart date: 30 August 2022 → 23 August 2022.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 25 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 3,623 ha
- Dates
- 23 Aug 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
- Name
- Conceição do Tocantins
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/conceicao-do-tocantins-2022-08-2?v=2026-10-25A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire conceicao-do-tocantins-2022-08-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 19.4 | 29 | 19.5 | 41.4 | 0 | 53.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-24 | 1 | 3 | 33.8 | 19 | 28 | 19.9 | 40.7 | 0 | 51.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-25 | 1 | 7 | 33.6 | 19.5 | 27 | 18.6 | 38.2 | 0 | 53.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-26 | 1 | 14 | 33.8 | 18.3 | 24 | 17.3 | 36 | 0 | 51.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-27 | 2 | 11 | 33.1 | 21.1 | 23 | 18 | 37.1 | 0 | 52.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 33.7 | 18.8 | 24 | 14.4 | 32 | 0 | 47.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-08-29 | 5 | 218 | 34.9 | 17.6 | 19 | 17.7 | 35.3 | 0 | 63.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-30 | 24 | 172 | 34.5 | 20.5 | 18 | 20.9 | 44.3 | 0 | 66.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-08-31 | 38 | 242 | 32.5 | 20 | 22 | 21.1 | 42.5 | 0 | 61.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-09-01 | 18 | 88 | 31.8 | 18.6 | 23 | 21.1 | 43.6 | 0 | 58.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-09-02 | 2 | 8 | 33.3 | 18.4 | 24 | 17.7 | 37.4 | 0 | 53.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-09-03 | 1 | 1 | 34.7 | 19.5 | 22 | 15.9 | 33.8 | 0 | 49.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-09-04 | 23 | 446 | 35.8 | 19.5 | 21 | 14.1 | 29.9 | 0 | 52.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2022-09-05 | 0 | 0 | 36.1 | 21.6 | 20 | 20.3 | 43.2 | 0 | 63.2 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-09-06 | 0 | 0 | 35.1 | 22.2 | 17 | 21.9 | 44.6 | 0 | 68.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 33.8 | 20.6 | 23 | 21.8 | 45 | 0 | 57.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-09-08 | 0 | 0 | 34.1 | 21.3 | 26 | 17.7 | 38.2 | 0 | 53.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 35.4 | 20.1 | 17 | 14.7 | 33.5 | 0 | 45.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-09-10 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 20 | 20 | 15.7 | 33.1 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-09-11 | 0 | 0 | 37.3 | 19.5 | 17 | 11.3 | 24.8 | 0 | 47 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-09-12 | 0 | 0 | 37.6 | 22.2 | 12 | 17.6 | 34.9 | 0 | 59.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-09-13 | 0 | 0 | 37.3 | 22.4 | 18 | 12.4 | 28.8 | 0 | 55.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2022-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 37.3 | 20.9 | 18 | 14.5 | 32.8 | 0 | 62.5 | extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 3,623ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 13days
- 23 Aug 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 23 Aug
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 116
- in a single hotspot: 87 MW
- Danger at start
- 53
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 110MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
23 Aug4 Sept
4 Sept 2022
How it evolved, day by day
24 Aug
27 Aug
31 Aug
4 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
36°high
44km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
31% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 584 ha in 2017, 53 ha in 2018, 742 ha in 2019, 108 ha in 2020, 192 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,107 ha that had burned before.
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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3,647 ha reached on 24 Aug1.4 %
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 2020Built-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)
Started with 60 days without rain: 55 % of the area in Brazil
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug | 32.3 °C | 29 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 24 Aug | 33.8 °C | 28 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 25 Aug | 33.6 °C | 27 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 26 Aug | 33.8 °C | 24 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 27 Aug | 33.1 °C | 23 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 28 Aug | 33.7 °C | 24 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 29 Aug | 34.9 °C | 19 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 30 Aug | 34.5 °C | 18 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 31 Aug | 32.5 °C | 22 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 1 Sept | 31.8 °C | 23 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 2 Sept | 33.3 °C | 24 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 3 Sept | 34.7 °C | 22 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 4 Sept | 35.8 °C | 21 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 5 Sept after | 36.1 °C | 20 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 6 Sept after | 35.1 °C | 17 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 69 |
| 7 Sept after | 33.8 °C | 23 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 8 Sept after | 34.1 °C | 26 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 9 Sept after | 35.4 °C | 17 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 10 Sept after | 36.0 °C | 20 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 11 Sept after | 37.3 °C | 17 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 12 Sept after | 37.6 °C | 12 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 13 Sept after | 37.3 °C | 18 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 14 Sept after | 37.3 °C | 18 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 53.2, a minimum humidity of 29% and more than two months without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 30.
FWI at the start
53.2
Minimum humidity
29 %
Days without rain
60+
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Conceição do Tocantins fire, 23 August 2022
3,623 ha
13 days
FWI 53.2
Min. humidity 29 %
Lavandeira fire, July 2022
5,554 ha
16 days
FWI 53.3
Min. humidity 29 %
112 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Conceição do Tocantins fire, September 2021
13,468 ha
16 days
FWI 55.4
Min. humidity 29 %
42 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 24 Sept.
Arraias fire, August 2016
5,190 ha
9 days
FWI 51.6
Min. humidity 28 %
31 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Arraias fire, September 2019
4,693 ha
6 days
FWI 55.3
Min. humidity 28 %
41 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Dianópolis fire, August 2019
9,268 ha
25 days
FWI 51.8
Min. humidity 28 %
91 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.9 mm on 28 Sept.
What happened to them
- 12 days
- median duration
- 5,140 ha
- median area
- 20 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 2.7 mm
- rain at the end (median; 7 of 30 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (3,623 ha against a median of 5,140 ha) and lasted 13 days, against 12 days.
In 23 of 30, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.7 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
44km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 4 Sept, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 7 of 30, with a median of 2.7 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 16 Aug 2022
After · 11 Sept 2022
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 1 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 34 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak34 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1048 µg/m³
Optical depth0.23
WHO 15
28 Aug31 Aug3 Sept6 Sept
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
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 · 116Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 10,958 haArraias16 September 2026 · 9 days · 21 km away
- 20,634 haConceição do Tocantins7 August 2026 · 30 days · 22 km away
- 20,163 haConceição do TocantinsSeptember 2018 · 9 days · 38 km away
- 10,319 haArraias12 August 2025 · 10 days · 38 km away
- 10,927 haTaipas do TocantinsSeptember 2025 · 14 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Conceição do Tocantins fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 August 2022 to 4 September 2022 (13 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 August 2022 to 4 September 2022.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,623 hectares (36.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Conceição do Tocantins (3,647 ha, 1.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 30. Their median duration was 12 days and their median area 5,140 ha; 20 % went past 10,000 ha. In 23 of 30, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.7 mm.
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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 30 August 2022 → 23 August 2022.
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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 30 August 2022 to 4 September 2022. 116 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.
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.