Satellites first detected fire on 29 October 2026 in Moju, Brazil. It has been active for 11 days, with 309 heat detections and an area with fire of about 3,136 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 2 municipalities.
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.
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Burned area
satellite only
≈ 3,136ha
Estimated from hotspots: no perimeter has been published yet.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
29 Oct 2026 – 8 Nov 2026
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This is an estimate from the VIIRS pixels that saw fire. It will change when the perimeter is published.
Duration by satellite
satellite only
11days
From 29 Oct 2026 to today: still being detected.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
last detection: 8 Nov 2026, 05:03 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 only
29 Oct 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
29 Oct 2026
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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 only
309
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 257 MW.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
Date
29 Oct 2026 – 8 Nov 2026
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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 only
697MW
Total radiative power on 7 November 2026; hotspots that day: 97.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
Date
7 Nov 2026
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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
model
3.5FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 0.
Source
WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
Date
29 Oct 2026, local noon
Model
ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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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
model
36.0°C · 39% RH
High of 36.0 °C and minimum humidity of 39% on 31 October 2026; gusts of 36 km/h on 7 November 2026.
Source
weather model at the fire’s grid cell
Date
29 Oct 2026 – 8 Nov 2026
Model
ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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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.
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Weather and FWI computed from the forecast (provisional until ERA5 arrives)
GWIS (Copernicus) has not yet published the perimeter of this fire. It rebuilds it from hotspots, which can take several days, and it does not always arrive. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). If the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.
Is it still active?
Satellites detected fire on 8 Nov 2026, 05:03 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. 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.
Area with fire
≈ 3,136ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
11days
29 Oct 2026 – 8 Nov 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
29 Oct
2026
Heat detections
309
in a single hotspot: 257 MW
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
292MW
detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
29 Oct8 Nov
Play back8 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
29 Oct1 Nov4 Nov7 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
36°high
36km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. 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.
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) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives
Day
High
Min. humidity
Peak gust
Rain
Danger (FWI)
29 Oct
34.1 °C
50 %
27 km/h
0.6 mm
Very low 4
30 Oct
34.1 °C
43 %
30 km/h
0.7 mm
Moderate 15
31 Oct
36.0 °C
39 %
28 km/h
0.1 mm
Moderate 17
1 Nov
35.0 °C
48 %
29 km/h
1.5 mm
Moderate 13
2 Nov
33.8 °C
51 %
30 km/h
0.7 mm
Moderate 15
3 Nov
35.0 °C
44 %
35 km/h
2.2 mm
Moderate 21
4 Nov
34.9 °C
41 %
34 km/h
0.7 mm
Moderate 16
5 Nov
35.1 °C
40 %
32 km/h
0.5 mm
High 21
6 Nov
34.9 °C
44 %
30 km/h
0.5 mm
Moderate 16
7 Nov
35.0 °C
44 %
36 km/h
0.6 mm
Moderate 19
8 Nov
35.6 °C
43 %
32 km/h
0.8 mm
High 22
Before and after, from space
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Before · 22 Oct 2026
After · 7 Nov 2026
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Detections table· 309Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.›
⬇ Download CSVTimes in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 29 October 2026 to 8 November 2026 (11 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 3,136 hectares with fire (31.4 km²), a rough figure; GWIS will give its own when it publishes the perimeter, which can take several days.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Moju (2,828 ha, 0.3 %); Mocajuba (308 ha, 0.4 %).
Is the Moju fire still active?
Yes: satellites detected fire on 8 Nov 2026, 05:03 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.0 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, class 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.
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.
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.
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No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 3,136 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 309 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
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.