How long did the Monte do Carmo fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 31 August 2024 to 10 October 2024 (41 days). The perimeter dates it from 5 September 2024 to 5 October 2024.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 15,744 hectares (157.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Monte do Carmo (15,832 ha, 4.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 40.1 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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 · 2024-08-31 → 2024-10-10

Monte do Carmo fire, August 2024 Monte do Carmo

Out · last detection 10 Oct 2024, 04:20 UTC

The fire started on 31 August 2024 in Monte do Carmo, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 41 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 15,744 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 98th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1243 with a page). Number 190 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

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Burnt area: 15,744ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 41days; 31 Aug 2024 – 10 Oct 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 31 Aug; 2024
Heat detections: 637; in a single hotspot: 95 MW
Danger at start: 48; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 171MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 31 Aug10 Oct

Play back 10 Oct 2024

How it evolved, day by day

31 Aug 7 Sept 12 Sept 17 Sept 22 Sept 30 Sept 5 Oct

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

46km/h · peak gust

7%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 11 Oct.

This area had burned before

86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5,335 ha in 2016, 6,768 ha in 2017, 6,972 ha in 2019, 9,053 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 13,488 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 9.9% of the area of London (157 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

Monte do Carmo 5,694 inhabitants where it started

15,832 ha reached on 31 Aug

4.4 %

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.

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)
31 Aug	35.3 °C	21 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
1 Sept	36.1 °C	20 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
2 Sept	35.9 °C	15 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
3 Sept	36.3 °C	11 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
4 Sept	38.4 °C	7 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
5 Sept	37.4 °C	12 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
6 Sept	37.0 °C	11 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
7 Sept	37.1 °C	16 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
8 Sept	37.0 °C	16 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
9 Sept	36.3 °C	18 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
10 Sept	35.7 °C	17 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 57
11 Sept	36.4 °C	18 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
12 Sept	36.9 °C	18 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
13 Sept	37.5 °C	16 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
14 Sept	36.8 °C	14 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 58
15 Sept	37.1 °C	15 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
16 Sept	38.4 °C	16 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
17 Sept	38.8 °C	14 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 56
18 Sept	38.2 °C	15 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
19 Sept	38.1 °C	14 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
20 Sept	37.8 °C	14 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 61
21 Sept	38.6 °C	11 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 59
22 Sept	38.0 °C	18 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 57
23 Sept	39.5 °C	13 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 60
24 Sept	37.6 °C	18 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 52
25 Sept	34.7 °C	28 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
26 Sept	36.7 °C	22 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
27 Sept	38.1 °C	17 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
28 Sept	37.4 °C	24 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 41
29 Sept	39.4 °C	15 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
30 Sept	37.1 °C	21 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 57
1 Oct	37.1 °C	21 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 49
2 Oct	38.2 °C	15 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 55
3 Oct	40.1 °C	8 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 62
4 Oct	37.9 °C	21 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
5 Oct	39.3 °C	18 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 48
6 Oct	35.0 °C	37 %	26 km/h	0.6 mm	High 37
7 Oct	34.5 °C	38 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
8 Oct	34.8 °C	39 %	22 km/h	0.4 mm	High 30
9 Oct	38.0 °C	26 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
10 Oct	36.8 °C	32 %	31 km/h	0.1 mm	Very high 40
11 Oct after	32.9 °C	48 %	26 km/h	1.4 mm	Moderate 17

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 24 Aug 2024

After · 17 Oct 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 5 October 2024 the air beside the fire reached 124 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 84: 5.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak124 µg/m³

Days over the guideline12 days

PM10178 µg/m³

Optical depth2.01

WHO 15

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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 · 637Every 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 Monte do Carmo fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 31 August 2024 to 10 October 2024 (41 days). The perimeter dates it from 5 September 2024 to 5 October 2024.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 15,744 hectares (157.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Monte do Carmo (15,832 ha, 4.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 40.1 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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 ›

INPE · Programa Queimadas ↗
IBAMA · Prevfogo ↗

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History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

25 October 2026 Last day with fire: 5 October 2024 → 10 October 2024.
25 October 2026 Start date: 5 September 2024 → 31 August 2024.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 5 September 2024 to 5 October 2024. 637 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.

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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