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Nova Monte Verde fire, August 2022 Nova Monte Verde

Out · last detection 8 Sept 2022, 04:28 UTC

The fire started on 12 August 2022 in Nova Monte Verde, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 28 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,059 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 727th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 193 in Brazil in 2022, of 687.

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Burnt area
7,059ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
28days
12 Aug 2022 – 8 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
12 Aug
2022
Heat detections
528
in a single hotspot: 177 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Average daily power
290MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Aug8 Sept
8 Sept 2022

How it evolved, day by day

12 Aug 2022 · 1,829 MW · 32 13 Aug 2022 · 794 MW · 52 14 Aug 2022 · 392 MW · 45 15 Aug 2022 · 57 MW · 31 16 Aug 2022 · 22 MW · 5 17 Aug 2022 · 26 MW · 5 19 Aug 2022 · 3 MW · 2 20 Aug 2022 · 27 MW · 9 21 Aug 2022 · 159 MW · 19 22 Aug 2022 · 70 MW · 13 23 Aug 2022 · 94 MW · 13 24 Aug 2022 · 7 MW · 3 25 Aug 2022 · 297 MW · 9 26 Aug 2022 · 59 MW · 16 27 Aug 2022 · 3 MW · 2 28 Aug 2022 · 18 MW · 5 29 Aug 2022 · 101 MW · 15 30 Aug 2022 · 7 MW · 2 31 Aug 2022 · 41 MW · 7 1 Sept 2022 · 836 MW · 47 2 Sept 2022 · 582 MW · 49 3 Sept 2022 · 2,141 MW · 88 4 Sept 2022 · 26 MW · 21 5 Sept 2022 · 39 MW · 11 6 Sept 2022 · 190 MW · 19 7 Sept 2022 · 11 MW · 6 8 Sept 2022 · 2 MW · 2
12 Aug 16 Aug 21 Aug 25 Aug 29 Aug 2 Sept 3 Sept 6 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
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.8 mm on 18 Sept.

This area had burned before

39% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,280 ha in 2017, 245 ha in 2019, 1,441 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,721 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.5% of the area of London (71 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

  1. Nova Monte Verde 8,313 inhabitants where it started
    7,109 ha reached on 12 Aug
    1.4 %

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.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2020
Built-up area0.14 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.14 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, 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.

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)
12 Aug 34.1 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
13 Aug 35.7 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
14 Aug 34.3 °C 32 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
15 Aug 32.6 °C 47 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
16 Aug 33.6 °C 41 % 24 km/h 0.2 mm High 24
17 Aug 33.8 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
18 Aug 35.4 °C 32 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
19 Aug 30.4 °C 45 % 48 km/h 0.1 mm High 35
20 Aug 31.1 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
21 Aug 34.8 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
22 Aug 35.1 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Aug 35.7 °C 19 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Aug 35.4 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
25 Aug 35.3 °C 29 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
26 Aug 34.4 °C 33 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
27 Aug 34.3 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Aug 35.0 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
29 Aug 36.1 °C 21 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
30 Aug 36.1 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
31 Aug 37.5 °C 20 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
1 Sept 36.0 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
2 Sept 36.3 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Sept 36.5 °C 18 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
4 Sept 35.8 °C 22 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
5 Sept 36.9 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
6 Sept 34.3 °C 35 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
7 Sept 34.9 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
8 Sept 34.7 °C 42 % 31 km/h 0.3 mm High 30
9 Sept after 35.0 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.2 mm High 30
10 Sept after 34.9 °C 32 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Sept after 34.4 °C 36 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Sept after 33.7 °C 46 % 26 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
13 Sept after 33.0 °C 44 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
14 Sept after 35.9 °C 36 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
15 Sept after 33.1 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 31
16 Sept after 35.0 °C 38 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
17 Sept after 35.4 °C 40 % 20 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
18 Sept after 31.2 °C 60 % 29 km/h 1.8 mm Low 10

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Aug 2022
After · 15 Sept 2022

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 1 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 230 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 132: 8.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak230 µg/m³
Days over the guideline26 days
PM10329 µg/m³
Optical depth2.02
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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 · 528Every 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 Nova Monte Verde fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 August 2022 to 8 September 2022 (28 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 August 2022 to 6 September 2022.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,059 hectares (70.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Monte Verde (7,109 ha, 1.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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.

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.
  1. Last day with fire: 6 September 2022 → 8 September 2022.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 12 August 2022 to 6 September 2022. 528 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 2020, 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.