Skip to content
worldfires
BR · Brazil · –

Jaborandi fire, 6 October 2025 Jaborandi, Correntina

Out · last detection 11 Oct 2025, 17:36 UTC

The fire started on 6 October 2025 in Jaborandi, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,393 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 22 in Brazil in 2025, of 188.

GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in October 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.

Compare with…
Burnt area
8,393ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
6 Oct 2025 – 11 Oct 2025
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
6 Oct
2025
Heat detections
272
in a single hotspot: 174 MW
Danger at start
43
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
733MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Oct11 Oct
11 Oct 2025

How it evolved, day by day

6 Oct 2025 · 231 MW · 3 7 Oct 2025 · 800 MW · 32 8 Oct 2025 · 425 MW · 42 9 Oct 2025 · 1,976 MW · 124 10 Oct 2025 · 933 MW · 66 11 Oct 2025 · 32 MW · 5
6 Oct 9 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

37°high
45km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 13 Oct.

This area had burned before

46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,889 ha in 2021.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 5.3% of the area of London (84 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
    4,864 ha reached on 6 Oct
    0.5 %
  2. Correntina 32,457 inhabitants
    3,578 ha reached on 7 Oct
    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 2025
Built-up area0.26 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.26 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) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Oct 34.7 °C 24 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Oct 37.2 °C 16 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
8 Oct 35.8 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
9 Oct 33.8 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
10 Oct 33.6 °C 20 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
11 Oct 33.8 °C 25 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
12 Oct after 32.5 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
13 Oct after 33.5 °C 30 % 24 km/h 2.8 mm Very high 42

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Sept 2025
After · 18 Oct 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 4 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 32 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak32 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1033 µg/m³
Optical depth0.64
4 Oct7 Oct10 Oct13 Oct
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 · 272Every 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

All fires in Brazil

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jaborandi fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 October 2025 and 11 October 2025: 6 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 8,393 hectares (83.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Jaborandi (4,864 ha, 0.5 %); Correntina (3,578 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

Does something look wrong on this page?

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.

Report an error
What do you think is wrong?

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 193.

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. 272 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.