How long did the Juscimeira fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 7 September 2024 to 21 September 2024 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 September 2024 to 19 September 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 19,683 hectares (196.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Juscimeira (14,300 ha, 5.2 %); Poxoréu (5,258 ha, 0.8 %); São Pedro da Cipa (222 ha, 0.6 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 39.5 °C, humidity dropped to 2 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, 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.

BR · Brazil · 2024-09-07 → 2024-09-21

Juscimeira fire, September 2024 Juscimeira, Poxoréu, São Pedro da Cipa

Out · last detection 21 Sept 2024, 17:51 UTC

The fire started on 7 September 2024 in Juscimeira, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 19,683 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 196th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 148 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

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Suggestions: Poxoréu · 2020 São Pedro da Cipa · 2020 Poxoréu · 2019 Rondonópolis · 2020

Burnt area: 19,683ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 15days; 7 Sept 2024 – 21 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 7 Sept; 2024
Heat detections: 906; in a single hotspot: 389 MW
Danger at start: 56; Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power: 876MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Sept21 Sept

Play back 21 Sept 2024

How it evolved, day by day

7 Sept 10 Sept 13 Sept 16 Sept 19 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

40°high

42km/h · peak gust

2%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 28 Sept.

This area had burned before

46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,086 ha in 2016, 1,265 ha in 2017, 1,449 ha in 2019, 5,509 ha in 2020, 1,390 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 9,115 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 12% of the area of London (197 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

Juscimeira 11,480 inhabitants where it started

14,300 ha reached on 9 Sept

5.2 %
Poxoréu 23,283 inhabitants

5,258 ha reached on 7 Sept

0.8 %
São Pedro da Cipa 4,191 inhabitants

222 ha reached on 14 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 2025

Built-up area3.0 ha

Residents≈ 150

Inside the perimeter there were about 3.0 hectares of built-up land and about 150 residents (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)
7 Sept	38.6 °C	7 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
8 Sept	37.9 °C	5 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
9 Sept	37.0 °C	7 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
10 Sept	37.4 °C	2 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
11 Sept	37.5 °C	14 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 63
12 Sept	37.8 °C	9 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
13 Sept	38.0 °C	10 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 57
14 Sept	37.7 °C	15 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
15 Sept	36.7 °C	20 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
16 Sept	32.6 °C	34 %	39 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 40
17 Sept	36.1 °C	18 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
18 Sept	39.5 °C	13 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
19 Sept	36.5 °C	24 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
20 Sept	37.8 °C	20 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
21 Sept	37.6 °C	7 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
22 Sept after	39.6 °C	8 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 55
23 Sept after	39.6 °C	8 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
24 Sept after	39.1 °C	15 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
25 Sept after	39.1 °C	20 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
26 Sept after	38.6 °C	22 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
27 Sept after	29.7 °C	51 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
28 Sept after	35.1 °C	30 %	24 km/h	1.4 mm	High 24

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 31 Aug 2024

After · 28 Sept 2024

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 10 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 111 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 69: 4.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak111 µg/m³

Days over the guideline18 days

PM10159 µg/m³

Optical depth2.44

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 · 906Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Juscimeira fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 7 September 2024 to 21 September 2024 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 September 2024 to 19 September 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 19,683 hectares (196.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Juscimeira (14,300 ha, 5.2 %); Poxoréu (5,258 ha, 0.8 %); São Pedro da Cipa (222 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 39.5 °C, humidity dropped to 2 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, 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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IBAMA · Prevfogo ↗

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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.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 19 September 2024 → 21 September 2024.

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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 September 2024 to 19 September 2024. 906 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.

Where it burned