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Cotegipe fire, July 2025 Cotegipe, Mansidão

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2025, 16:57 UTC

The fire started on 30 July 2025 in Cotegipe, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 12 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,292 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 180th largest in Bahia since 2016 (of 466 with a page). Number 246 in Brazil in 2025, of 714.

Burnt area
6,292ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
12days
30 Jul 2025 – 10 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
30 Jul
2025
Heat detections
223
in a single hotspot: 532 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
4.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Aug 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jul10 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

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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
36km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

75% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 605 ha in 2019, 3,346 ha in 2020, 825 ha in 2021, 1,101 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,730 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Cotegipe 13,063 inhabitants where it started
    6,325 ha reached on 29 Jul
    1.5 %
  2. Mansidão 13,919 inhabitants
    1 ha
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

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)
29 Jul 36.2 °C 17 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
30 Jul 36.9 °C 17 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
31 Jul 35.5 °C 20 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
1 Aug 33.9 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Aug 32.9 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
3 Aug 33.0 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
4 Aug 33.8 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
5 Aug 34.9 °C 21 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
6 Aug 34.7 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
7 Aug 35.0 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Aug 35.3 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Aug 37.0 °C 17 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Aug 35.9 °C 21 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Aug after 37.0 °C 19 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Aug after 34.2 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 39
13 Aug after 30.1 °C 41 % 29 km/h 0.2 mm High 32
14 Aug after 35.1 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
15 Aug after 35.1 °C 20 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
16 Aug after 34.3 °C 22 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
17 Aug after 34.0 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
18 Aug after 34.1 °C 23 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
19 Aug after 33.8 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
20 Aug after 33.2 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jul 2025
After · 17 Aug 2025

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 13 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
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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 · 223Every 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 Cotegipe fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 July 2025 and 10 August 2025: 12 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,292 hectares (62.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Cotegipe (6,325 ha, 1.5 %); Mansidão (1 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.0 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, 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

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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.