Burned area
satellite only3,552ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 1 Sept 2025 – 18 Sept 2025
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BR · Brazil · –
Lagoa do Piauí fire, September 2025 Lagoa do Piauí, Monsenhor Gil
Out · last detection 18 Sept 2025, 16:28 UTC
The fire started on 1 September 2025 in Lagoa do Piauí, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,552 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 508th largest in Piaui since 2016 (of 665 with a page). Number 421 in Brazil in 2025, of 526.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only18days
1 Sept 2025 to 18 Sept 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 18 Sept 2025, 16:28 UTC
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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.
Start
satellite only1 Sept 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 1 Sept 2025
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only95
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 44 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 1 Sept 2025 – 18 Sept 2025
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only183MW
Total radiative power on 11 September 2025; hotspots that day: 15.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 11 Sept 2025
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model46.4FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 18.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 1 Sept 2025, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model38.4°C · 22% RH
High of 38.4 °C and minimum humidity of 22% on 18 September 2025; gusts of 48 km/h on 2 September 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 1 Sept 2025 – 18 Sept 2025
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 350people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 7.1 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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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.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 16 September 2025 → 18 September 2025.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 25 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 3,552 ha
- Dates
- 1 Sept 2025 – 18 Sept 2025
- Name
- Lagoa do Piauí
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/lagoa-do-piaui-2025-09?v=2026-10-25A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire lagoa-do-piaui-2025-09.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-01 | 2 | 13 | 36.4 | 26.1 | 28 | 19.4 | 43.9 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-02 | 12 | 144 | 36.5 | 25.8 | 25 | 19.7 | 48.2 | 0 | 47.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-03 | 11 | 86 | 36.5 | 25 | 21 | 18.6 | 45 | 0 | 46.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-04 | 2 | 15 | 36.2 | 24.2 | 24 | 18.1 | 43.9 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-05 | 3 | 6 | 36.5 | 25.2 | 25 | 18.2 | 44.6 | 0 | 46.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-06 | 1 | 1 | 36.4 | 25.6 | 27 | 17.6 | 43.6 | 0 | 46.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-07 | 4 | 15 | 37.4 | 25.3 | 22 | 16.6 | 41.4 | 0 | 45.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-08 | 7 | 41 | 37.2 | 25 | 20 | 17 | 42.8 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-09 | 4 | 15 | 36.6 | 24.6 | 26 | 15.6 | 38.5 | 0 | 45.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-10 | 11 | 46 | 38.3 | 23.1 | 21 | 13.4 | 33.8 | 0 | 43.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-11 | 15 | 183 | 37.8 | 22.7 | 26 | 10.3 | 29.9 | 0 | 40.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-12 | 10 | 27 | 37.3 | 25 | 24 | 13.9 | 35.6 | 0 | 44.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-13 | 2 | 8 | 36.1 | 23.2 | 29 | 14.9 | 38.5 | 0 | 43.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 36.6 | 23.6 | 26 | 11.4 | 32 | 0 | 39.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-15 | 0 | 0 | 37.4 | 24.9 | 25 | 16.4 | 41.4 | 0 | 45.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 4 | 18 | 36.4 | 26 | 29 | 14.3 | 38.5 | 0 | 42.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-17 | 0 | 0 | 37.3 | 25.7 | 25 | 16.7 | 40.7 | 0 | 45.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-18 | 7 | 80 | 38.4 | 23.8 | 22 | 15.3 | 40 | 0 | 44.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-19 | 0 | 0 | 37.9 | 24.6 | 24 | 12.1 | 33.5 | 0 | 41.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-20 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 24.6 | 24 | 9.8 | 28.4 | 0 | 39.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 36.9 | 23.2 | 28 | 15.3 | 38.2 | 0 | 45 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 24.3 | 32 | 14.9 | 38.5 | 0 | 41.8 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 38.2 | 22.9 | 26 | 15.3 | 38.2 | 0 | 42.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-24 | 0 | 0 | 38.2 | 24.1 | 24 | 14.9 | 41.8 | 0 | 42.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-25 | 0 | 0 | 37.2 | 25.6 | 25 | 18.8 | 45.7 | 0 | 47 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-26 | 0 | 0 | 37.1 | 23.9 | 26 | 16.4 | 40.7 | 0 | 44.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-27 | 0 | 0 | 36.6 | 25.3 | 25 | 17.6 | 40 | 0 | 46.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-28 | 0 | 0 | 36.7 | 25.2 | 25 | 17.6 | 41 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 3,552ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 18days
- 1 Sept 2025 – 18 Sept 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 1 Sept
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 95
- in a single hotspot: 44 MW
- Danger at start
- 46
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 47MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
1 Sept18 Sept
18 Sept 2025
How it evolved, day by day
1 Sept
4 Sept
7 Sept
11 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
38°high
48km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity
It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
4% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 145 ha in 2017.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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3,026 ha reached on 1 Sept7.0 %
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Monsenhor Gil 10,255 inhabitants550 ha reached on 3 Sept1.0 %
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 2025Built-up area7.1 ha
Residents≈ 350
Inside the perimeter there were about 7.1 hectares of built-up land and about 350 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept | 36.4 °C | 28 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 2 Sept | 36.5 °C | 25 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 3 Sept | 36.5 °C | 21 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 4 Sept | 36.2 °C | 24 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 5 Sept | 36.5 °C | 25 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 6 Sept | 36.4 °C | 27 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 7 Sept | 37.4 °C | 22 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 8 Sept | 37.2 °C | 20 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 9 Sept | 36.6 °C | 26 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 10 Sept | 38.3 °C | 21 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 11 Sept | 37.8 °C | 26 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 12 Sept | 37.3 °C | 24 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 13 Sept | 36.1 °C | 29 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 14 Sept | 36.6 °C | 26 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 15 Sept | 37.4 °C | 25 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 16 Sept | 36.4 °C | 29 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 17 Sept | 37.3 °C | 25 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 18 Sept | 38.4 °C | 22 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 19 Sept after | 37.9 °C | 24 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 20 Sept after | 37.0 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 21 Sept after | 36.9 °C | 28 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 22 Sept after | 36.3 °C | 32 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 23 Sept after | 38.2 °C | 26 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 24 Sept after | 38.2 °C | 24 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 25 Sept after | 37.2 °C | 25 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 26 Sept after | 37.1 °C | 26 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 27 Sept after | 36.6 °C | 25 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 28 Sept after | 36.7 °C | 25 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 46.4, a minimum humidity of 28% and 18 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 26.
FWI at the start
46.4
Minimum humidity
28 %
Days without rain
18
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Lagoa do Piauí fire, September 2025
3,552 ha
18 days
FWI 46.4
Min. humidity 28 %
Floriano fire, August 2018
3,269 ha
8 days
FWI 47.0
Min. humidity 28 %
176 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.5 mm on 6 Sept.
São Francisco do Maranhão fire, September 2024
5,270 ha
18 days
FWI 46.9
Min. humidity 27 %
113 km away, in 2024
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Floriano fire, August 2018
8,460 ha
16 days
FWI 44.8
Min. humidity 28 %
165 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.5 mm on 6 Sept.
Itaueira fire, September 2018
3,345 ha
13 days
FWI 46.7
Min. humidity 26 %
212 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Buriti dos Montes fire, October 2019
15,637 ha
20 days
FWI 50.7
Min. humidity 28 %
156 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 15 days
- median duration
- 4,549 ha
- median area
- 8 %
- went past 10,000 ha
- 2.8 mm
- rain at the end (median; 9 of 26 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (3,552 ha against a median of 4,549 ha) and lasted 18 days, against 15 days.
In 17 of 26, 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 2.8 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
48km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Sept, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 9 of 26, with a median of 2.8 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.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 25 Aug 2025
After · 25 Sept 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 11 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 46 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 27: 1.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak46 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM1046 µg/m³
Optical depth0.38
WHO 15
30 Aug4 Sept9 Sept14 Sept19 Sept
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 · 95Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 5,854 haCurralinhosSeptember 2025 · 15 days · 10 km away
- 5,139 haNazáriaAugust 2025 · 18 days · 20 km away
- 15,001 haMonsenhor GilSeptember 2025 · 27 days · 23 km away
- 5,726 haMiguel LeãoSeptember 2018 · 9 days · 24 km away
- 4,882 haCurralinhosOctober 2016 · 11 days · 31 km away
- 29,750 haSão Pedro do PiauíSeptember 2025 · 33 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Lagoa do Piauí fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 September 2025 to 18 September 2025 (18 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 September 2025 to 16 September 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,552 hectares (35.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lagoa do Piauí (3,026 ha, 7.0 %); Monsenhor Gil (550 ha, 1.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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: 26. Their median duration was 15 days and their median area 4,549 ha; 8 % went past 10,000 ha. In 17 of 26, 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 2.8 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 16 September 2025 → 18 September 2025.
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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 1 September 2025 to 16 September 2025. 95 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.
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.