Dueré fire, 29 September 2025 Lagoa da Confusão, Dueré
The fire started on 29 September 2025 in Dueré, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,540 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 693th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1241 with a page). Number 399 in Brazil in 2025, of 714.
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- Burnt area
- 4,540ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 9days
- 29 Sept 2025 – 7 Oct 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 29 Sept
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 128
- in a single hotspot: 74 MW
- Danger at start
- 46
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 179MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.1 mm on 9 Oct.
This area had burned before
99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,739 ha in 2016, 225 ha in 2017, 4,680 ha in 2019, 165 ha in 2020, 945 ha in 2021, 570 ha in 2022, 1,552 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,496 ha that had burned before.
- 4,680 ha Santa Rita do Tocantins fire, August 2019 61,753 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,918 ha Lagoa da Confusão fire, July 2016 32,487 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,357 ha Lagoa da Confusão fire, August 2024 117,272 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 945 ha Lagoa da Confusão fire, August 2021 16,569 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 570 ha Dueré fire, August 2022 8,352 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 225 ha Santa Rita do Tocantins fire, August 2017 28,578 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 165 ha Dueré fire, September 2020 3,057 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 130 ha Dueré fire, August 2024 10,284 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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Lagoa da Confusão 15,288 inhabitants3,657 ha reached on 30 Sept0.3 %
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911 ha reached on 29 Sept0.3 %
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 2025Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Sept | 38.9 °C | 20 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 30 Sept | 39.5 °C | 20 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 1 Oct | 39.5 °C | 18 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 2 Oct | 39.1 °C | 14 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 3 Oct | 39.4 °C | 16 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 4 Oct | 38.8 °C | 19 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 5 Oct | 38.4 °C | 20 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 6 Oct | 39.8 °C | 17 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 7 Oct | 39.2 °C | 22 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 8 Oct after | 37.9 °C | 31 % | 26 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 38 |
| 9 Oct after | 31.7 °C | 49 % | 25 km/h | 7.1 mm | Very low 5 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 7 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 62 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 48: 3.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 128Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 61,753 haSanta Rita do TocantinsAugust 2019 · 49 days · 9 km away
- 32,487 haLagoa da Confusão29 July 2016 · 35 days · 18 km away
- 28,578 haSanta Rita do TocantinsAugust 2017 · 39 days · 20 km away
- 117,272 haLagoa da Confusão18 August 2024 · 47 days · 26 km away
- 118,722 haLagoa da Confusão13 August 2024 · 43 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dueré fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 September 2025 to 7 October 2025 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 29 September 2025 to 5 October 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,540 hectares (45.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lagoa da Confusão (3,657 ha, 0.3 %); Dueré (911 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 39.8 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 58, 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 5 October 2025 → 7 October 2025.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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 29 September 2025 to 5 October 2025. 128 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.
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.