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Feliz Natal fire, May 2019 Feliz Natal

Out · last detection 15 Jul 2019, 16:43 UTC

The fire started on 9 May 2019 in Feliz Natal, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 68 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,485 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.

It is the 1662th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 782 in Brazil in 2019, of 974.

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Burnt area
3,485ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
68days
9 May 2019 – 15 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
9 May
2019
Heat detections
1,108
in a single hotspot: 70 MW
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index
Average daily power
134MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 May15 Jul
15 Jul 2019

How it evolved, day by day

9 May 2019 · 1 MW · 1 10 May 2019 · 48 MW · 17 11 May 2019 · 45 MW · 12 12 May 2019 · 1 MW · 2 13 May 2019 · 2 MW · 1 16 May 2019 · 5 MW · 1 17 May 2019 · 28 MW · 6 18 May 2019 · 25 MW · 12 19 May 2019 · 92 MW · 21 20 May 2019 · 74 MW · 15 21 May 2019 · 54 MW · 9 22 May 2019 · 46 MW · 6 23 May 2019 · 26 MW · 4 24 May 2019 · 3 MW · 2 25 May 2019 · 20 MW · 3 26 May 2019 · 16 MW · 5 27 May 2019 · 54 MW · 4 28 May 2019 · 265 MW · 36 29 May 2019 · 516 MW · 57 30 May 2019 · 71 MW · 17 31 May 2019 · 32 MW · 14 1 Jun 2019 · 20 MW · 8 2 Jun 2019 · 83 MW · 7 3 Jun 2019 · 60 MW · 13 4 Jun 2019 · 51 MW · 11 5 Jun 2019 · 63 MW · 6 6 Jun 2019 · 99 MW · 17 8 Jun 2019 · 243 MW · 28 9 Jun 2019 · 377 MW · 39 10 Jun 2019 · 285 MW · 22 11 Jun 2019 · 197 MW · 36 12 Jun 2019 · 293 MW · 25 13 Jun 2019 · 94 MW · 11 14 Jun 2019 · 26 MW · 20 15 Jun 2019 · 332 MW · 45 16 Jun 2019 · 246 MW · 29 17 Jun 2019 · 140 MW · 24 18 Jun 2019 · 230 MW · 29 19 Jun 2019 · 225 MW · 37 20 Jun 2019 · 118 MW · 24 21 Jun 2019 · 235 MW · 19 22 Jun 2019 · 186 MW · 27 23 Jun 2019 · 139 MW · 20 24 Jun 2019 · 452 MW · 28 25 Jun 2019 · 482 MW · 36 26 Jun 2019 · 217 MW · 26 27 Jun 2019 · 297 MW · 25 28 Jun 2019 · 180 MW · 21 29 Jun 2019 · 75 MW · 17 30 Jun 2019 · 56 MW · 7 1 Jul 2019 · 80 MW · 10 2 Jul 2019 · 91 MW · 11 3 Jul 2019 · 216 MW · 18 4 Jul 2019 · 147 MW · 12 5 Jul 2019 · 102 MW · 25 6 Jul 2019 · 157 MW · 19 7 Jul 2019 · 144 MW · 21 8 Jul 2019 · 101 MW · 9 9 Jul 2019 · 128 MW · 9 10 Jul 2019 · 121 MW · 17 11 Jul 2019 · 266 MW · 18 12 Jul 2019 · 91 MW · 22 13 Jul 2019 · 68 MW · 7 14 Jul 2019 · 40 MW · 5 15 Jul 2019 · 31 MW · 3
9 May 21 May 29 May 31 May 11 Jun 21 Jun 1 Jul 11 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
41km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,121 ha in 2018.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 2.2% of the area of London (35 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. Feliz Natal 10,521 inhabitants where it started
    3,510 ha reached on 9 May
    0.3 %

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 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)
9 May 32.6 °C 56 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
10 May 33.5 °C 47 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
11 May 33.7 °C 48 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
12 May 33.4 °C 48 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm Low 10
13 May 31.6 °C 55 % 31 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 12
14 May 31.3 °C 54 % 36 km/h 0.7 mm Low 11
15 May 28.0 °C 66 % 36 km/h 1.2 mm Low 6
16 May 29.4 °C 57 % 23 km/h 0.1 mm Low 9
17 May 29.9 °C 56 % 22 km/h 0.2 mm Low 9
18 May 30.7 °C 54 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
19 May 32.5 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
20 May 33.2 °C 40 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
21 May 33.2 °C 46 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
22 May 32.2 °C 47 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
23 May 33.2 °C 47 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
24 May 30.0 °C 60 % 29 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 15
25 May 31.8 °C 48 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
26 May 32.6 °C 55 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
27 May 33.6 °C 48 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
28 May 33.2 °C 47 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
29 May 33.6 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
30 May 33.6 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
31 May 33.9 °C 38 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
1 Jun 34.9 °C 31 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jun 34.1 °C 33 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
3 Jun 32.6 °C 42 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
4 Jun 30.3 °C 53 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Jun 32.2 °C 46 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
6 Jun 32.6 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
7 Jun 30.6 °C 42 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
8 Jun 31.2 °C 44 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
9 Jun 32.6 °C 38 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
10 Jun 33.1 °C 38 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
11 Jun 32.8 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
12 Jun 32.1 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
13 Jun 32.6 °C 41 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
14 Jun 32.3 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
15 Jun 33.0 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
16 Jun 32.4 °C 34 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Jun 31.6 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
18 Jun 31.8 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
19 Jun 33.2 °C 42 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
20 Jun 33.2 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Jun 33.1 °C 34 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
22 Jun 32.9 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
23 Jun 30.9 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
24 Jun 30.8 °C 36 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
25 Jun 32.4 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Jun 32.7 °C 35 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
27 Jun 33.0 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Jun 33.2 °C 34 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
29 Jun 32.8 °C 35 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Jun 32.9 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
1 Jul 32.4 °C 35 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Jul 33.0 °C 34 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Jul 33.7 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
4 Jul 34.5 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
5 Jul 33.9 °C 40 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Jul 28.9 °C 51 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Jul 29.4 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Jul 32.1 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
9 Jul 31.7 °C 41 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
10 Jul 32.5 °C 35 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Jul 32.2 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
12 Jul 32.9 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
13 Jul 33.3 °C 35 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Jul 34.1 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
15 Jul 33.8 °C 27 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
16 Jul after 34.3 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
17 Jul after 33.9 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Jul after 34.1 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
19 Jul after 33.6 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
20 Jul after 31.5 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
21 Jul after 32.1 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
22 Jul after 32.8 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
23 Jul after 32.2 °C 32 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
24 Jul after 32.1 °C 39 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Jul after 32.1 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 2 May 2019
After · 22 Jul 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 · 1,108Every 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 Feliz Natal fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 9 May 2019 to 15 July 2019 (68 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 May 2019 to 14 July 2019.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,485 hectares (34.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Feliz Natal (3,510 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.9 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class 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 ›

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 July 2019 → 15 July 2019.
  2. Start date: 16 May 2019 → 9 May 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 16 May 2019 to 14 July 2019. 1,108 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.