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Jaborandi fire, June 2025 Jaborandi

Out · last detection 12 Jun 2025, 04:30 UTC

The fire started on 5 June 2025 in Jaborandi, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,572 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 324th largest in Bahia since 2016 (of 386 with a page). Number 417 in Brazil in 2025, of 526.

Burnt area
3,572ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
8days
5 Jun 2025 – 12 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
5 Jun
2025
Heat detections
173
in a single hotspot: 75 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Average daily power
284MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Jun12 Jun
12 Jun 2025

How it evolved, day by day

5 Jun 2025 · 21 MW · 10 6 Jun 2025 · 314 MW · 30 7 Jun 2025 · 20 MW · 22 9 Jun 2025 · 233 MW · 25 10 Jun 2025 · 49 MW · 25 11 Jun 2025 · 1,329 MW · 41 12 Jun 2025 · 24 MW · 20
5 Jun 7 Jun 11 Jun

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
35km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

8% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 269 ha in 2024.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 2.3% of the area of London (36 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. Jaborandi 9,275 inhabitants where it started
    3,594 ha reached on 5 Jun
    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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside 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)
5 Jun 29.5 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Jun 31.2 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
7 Jun 31.3 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
8 Jun 30.7 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
9 Jun 32.1 °C 25 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Jun 32.1 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
11 Jun 31.1 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
12 Jun 30.7 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm High 35
13 Jun after 27.9 °C 42 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Jun after 26.3 °C 37 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
15 Jun after 27.1 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Jun after 28.6 °C 28 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
17 Jun after 27.8 °C 39 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
18 Jun after 29.0 °C 34 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
19 Jun after 28.3 °C 29 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Jun after 28.6 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Jun after 28.3 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
22 Jun after 31.1 °C 19 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 29.3, a minimum humidity of 29% and 4 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 22.

FWI at the start 29.3
Minimum humidity 29 %
Days without rain 4
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

São Domingos fire, October 2016
4,828 ha 3 days FWI 29.7 Min. humidity 25 % 126 km away, in 2016

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 20 Oct.

What happened to them

10 days
median duration
4,962 ha
median area
27 %
went past 10,000 ha
2.2 mm
rain at the end (median; 17 of 22 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (3,572 ha against a median of 4,962 ha) and lasted 8 days, against 10 days.

In 5 of 22, 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 2.2 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
35km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 12 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 17 of 22, with a median of 2.2 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.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 May 2025
After · 19 Jun 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 10 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak24 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1025 µg/m³
Optical depth0.46
3 Jun6 Jun9 Jun12 Jun15 Jun
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 · 173Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jaborandi fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 June 2025 and 12 June 2025: 8 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 3,572 hectares (35.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jaborandi (3,594 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.1 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.
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: 22. Their median duration was 10 days and their median area 4,962 ha; 27 % went past 10,000 ha. In 5 of 22, 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 2.2 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 173 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.

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.