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Moju fire, 29 October 2026 Moju, Mocajuba

Burning · last detection 8 Nov 2026, 05:03 UTC

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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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
8 Nov 2026

How it evolved, day by day

29 Oct 2026 · 396 MW · 20 30 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 31 Oct 2026 · 78 MW · 15 1 Nov 2026 · 410 MW · 21 2 Nov 2026 · 449 MW · 13 3 Nov 2026 · 330 MW · 38 4 Nov 2026 · 160 MW · 8 5 Nov 2026 · 22 MW · 5 6 Nov 2026 · 251 MW · 59 7 Nov 2026 · 697 MW · 97 8 Nov 2026 · 129 MW · 39
29 Oct 1 Nov 4 Nov 7 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.

What happened to each town

  1. Moju 84,094 inhabitants where it started
    2,828 ha reached on 29 Oct
    0.3 %
  2. Mocajuba 27,198 inhabitants
    308 ha reached on 29 Oct
    0.4 %

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

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

Before · 22 Oct 2026
After · 7 Nov 2026

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 · 309Every 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 Moju fire last?
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.

Emergency number: 193 · Emergency number and official warnings

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How we know this
  • 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.

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.