How long did the Itacoatiara fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 October 2026 to 25 October 2026 (24 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 October 2026 to 25 October 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,364 hectares (33.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Itacoatiara (3,386 ha, 0.4 %).

Is the Itacoatiara fire still active?

No fire detections since 25 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.6 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, 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.

BR · Brazil · 2026-10-02 → 2026-10-25

Itacoatiara fire, 2 October 2026 Itacoatiara

Dying down · last detection 25 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC

The fire started on 2 October 2026 in Itacoatiara, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,364 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 365th largest in Amazonas since 2016 (of 450 with a page). Number 647 in Brazil in 2026, of 757.

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Is it still active?

No detections since 25 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. 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.

Burnt area: 3,364ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 24days; 2 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 2 Oct; 2026
Heat detections: 142; in a single hotspot: 97 MW
Danger at start: 15; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 83MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Oct25 Oct

Play back 25 Oct 2026

How it evolved, day by day

3 Oct 7 Oct 10 Oct 14 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 20 Oct 24 Oct

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

46km/h · peak gust

24%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2.1% of the area of London (34 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

Itacoatiara 103,598 inhabitants where it started

3,386 ha reached on 3 Oct

0.4 %

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 2025

Built-up area0.33 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.33 hectares of 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) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives

Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Rain	Danger (FWI)
2 Oct	37.0 °C	37 %	26 km/h	1.8 mm	Moderate 15
3 Oct	38.1 °C	26 %	28 km/h	0.3 mm	High 24
4 Oct	36.0 °C	38 %	27 km/h	0.3 mm	High 33
5 Oct	36.6 °C	39 %	26 km/h	0.4 mm	High 25
6 Oct	37.7 °C	35 %	44 km/h	0.2 mm	High 29
7 Oct	38.5 °C	24 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
8 Oct	38.6 °C	27 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
9 Oct	38.0 °C	32 %	34 km/h	0.3 mm	High 32
10 Oct	38.6 °C	31 %	36 km/h	0.1 mm	High 34
11 Oct	37.6 °C	31 %	32 km/h	0.1 mm	High 34
12 Oct	38.1 °C	32 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	High 32
13 Oct	36.8 °C	39 %	31 km/h	1.1 mm	Moderate 20
14 Oct	36.0 °C	53 %	34 km/h	2.0 mm	Low 11
15 Oct	37.1 °C	37 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
16 Oct	37.4 °C	33 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
17 Oct	37.8 °C	31 %	32 km/h	0.3 mm	High 30
18 Oct	28.8 °C	60 %	24 km/h	6.3 mm	Very low 4
19 Oct	32.4 °C	57 %	23 km/h	3.8 mm	Very low 3
20 Oct	33.3 °C	54 %	35 km/h	8.5 mm	Very low 2
21 Oct	35.6 °C	44 %	34 km/h	7.5 mm	Very low 3
22 Oct	36.7 °C	38 %	32 km/h	0.7 mm	Low 11
23 Oct	34.6 °C	51 %	29 km/h	2.0 mm	Very low 4
24 Oct	37.5 °C	34 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
25 Oct	38.3 °C	33 %	28 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 16

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Sept 2026

After · 25 Oct 2026

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 14 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 152 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 103: 6.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak152 µg/m³

Days over the guideline21 days

PM10155 µg/m³

Optical depth1.92

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 · 142Every 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

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Itacoatiara fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 October 2026 to 25 October 2026 (24 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 October 2026 to 25 October 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,364 hectares (33.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Itacoatiara (3,386 ha, 0.4 %).
Is the Itacoatiara fire still active?: No fire detections since 25 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.6 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, 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 ›

INPE · Programa Queimadas ↗
IBAMA · Prevfogo ↗

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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 7 October 2026 to 25 October 2026. 142 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
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.

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.