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Jangada fire, September 2020 Rosário Oeste, Jangada, Nossa Senhora do Livramento

Out · last detection 22 Sept 2020, 04:54 UTC

The fire started on 2 September 2020 in Jangada, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 21 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 38,460 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 72th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 34 in Brazil in 2020, of 957.

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Suggestions: Rosário Oeste · 2018Rosário Oeste · 2016Rosário Oeste · 2019Rosário Oeste · 2025

Burnt area
38,460ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
21days
2 Sept 2020 – 22 Sept 2020
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
2 Sept
2020
Heat detections
1,615
in a single hotspot: 209 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
850MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Sept22 Sept
22 Sept 2020

How it evolved, day by day

2 Sept 2020 · 27 MW · 3 3 Sept 2020 · 26 MW · 8 4 Sept 2020 · 192 MW · 35 5 Sept 2020 · 611 MW · 106 6 Sept 2020 · 589 MW · 109 7 Sept 2020 · 1,008 MW · 61 8 Sept 2020 · 122 MW · 37 9 Sept 2020 · 194 MW · 41 10 Sept 2020 · 168 MW · 40 11 Sept 2020 · 1,201 MW · 129 12 Sept 2020 · 3,672 MW · 222 13 Sept 2020 · 4,448 MW · 185 14 Sept 2020 · 1,913 MW · 208 15 Sept 2020 · 1,085 MW · 201 16 Sept 2020 · 1,013 MW · 105 17 Sept 2020 · 314 MW · 45 18 Sept 2020 · 333 MW · 65 19 Sept 2020 · 37 MW · 11 21 Sept 2020 · 29 MW · 2 22 Sept 2020 · 8 MW · 2
2 Sept 5 Sept 8 Sept 11 Sept 13 Sept 14 Sept 17 Sept 21 Sept

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
42km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

25% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,972 ha in 2016, 1,628 ha in 2017, 6,001 ha in 2018, 1,634 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 9,661 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 24% of the area of London (385 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. Rosário Oeste
    18,301 ha reached on 7 Sept
    2.5 %
  2. Jangada 7,426 inhabitants where it started
    17,343 ha reached on 2 Sept
    13 %
  3. Nossa Senhora do Livramento
    3,065 ha reached on 4 Sept
    0.6 %

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 area3.2 ha
Residents≈ 300

Inside the perimeter there were about 3.2 hectares of built-up land and about 300 residents (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)
2 Sept 32.7 °C 25 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
3 Sept 33.8 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
4 Sept 34.9 °C 23 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
5 Sept 35.4 °C 17 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
6 Sept 35.8 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Sept 35.6 °C 20 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Sept 34.2 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
9 Sept 36.4 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
10 Sept 37.1 °C 18 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Sept 37.0 °C 17 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
12 Sept 36.2 °C 18 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
13 Sept 36.8 °C 14 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
14 Sept 35.9 °C 16 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
15 Sept 33.7 °C 23 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
16 Sept 35.5 °C 21 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
17 Sept 36.1 °C 20 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Sept 35.8 °C 21 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
19 Sept 36.5 °C 24 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
20 Sept 30.0 °C 36 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
21 Sept 30.0 °C 41 % 37 km/h 0.7 mm High 28
22 Sept 29.5 °C 44 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Sept after 32.8 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.3 mm High 24
24 Sept after 36.0 °C 26 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
25 Sept after 38.0 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
26 Sept after 36.1 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
27 Sept after 35.7 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 44
28 Sept after 36.4 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Sept after 36.9 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
30 Sept after 38.5 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
1 Oct after 37.7 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
2 Oct after 34.8 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Aug 2020
After · 29 Sept 2020

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 · 1,615Every 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 Jangada fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 September 2020 to 22 September 2020 (21 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 September 2020 to 21 September 2020.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 38,460 hectares (384.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Rosário Oeste (18,301 ha, 2.5 %); Jangada (17,343 ha, 13 %); Nossa Senhora do Livramento (3,065 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.1 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 51, 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 ›

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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 21 September 2020 → 22 September 2020.

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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 2 September 2020 to 21 September 2020. 1,615 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.