Burned area
satellite only3,333ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 27 May 2024 – 26 Jun 2024
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BR · Brazil · –
Paranã fire, May 2024 Paranã
Out · last detection 26 Jun 2024, 16:42 UTC
The fire started on 27 May 2024 in Paranã, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 31 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,333 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 879th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1036 with a page). Number 1134 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only31days
27 May 2024 to 26 Jun 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 26 Jun 2024, 16:42 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 only27 May 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 27 May 2024
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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 only238
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 82 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 27 May 2024 – 26 Jun 2024
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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 only376MW
Total radiative power on 18 June 2024; hotspots that day: 30.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 18 Jun 2024
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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
model35.5FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 37.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 27 May 2024, 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
model33.2°C · 31% RH
High of 33.2 °C and minimum humidity of 31% on 31 May 2024; gusts of 44 km/h on 1 June 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 27 May 2024 – 26 Jun 2024
- 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.
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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logStart date: 1 June 2024 → 27 May 2024.
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logLast day with fire: 26 June 2024 → 19 June 2024.
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logStart date: 27 May 2024 → 1 June 2024.
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logLast day with fire: 19 June 2024 → 26 June 2024.
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logStart date: 1 June 2024 → 27 May 2024.
Area logged each night
Move the slider to see which area the page published each day.
Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/parana-tocantins-2024-05?v=2026-11-05A 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 parana-tocantins-2024-05.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-27 | 2 | 23 | 33 | 20.2 | 41 | 15.7 | 33.5 | 0 | 35.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1 | 8 | 32.7 | 19.9 | 33 | 16.1 | 33.5 | 0 | 39 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-05-29 | 4 | 55 | 32.7 | 19.2 | 36 | 14.9 | 31 | 0 | 38.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 9 | 12 | 32.9 | 19.2 | 34 | 16 | 30.6 | 0 | 41.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-05-31 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 18.7 | 31 | 20 | 39.2 | 0 | 47.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-01 | 2 | 29 | 32 | 20.1 | 37 | 21.9 | 43.6 | 0 | 47.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-02 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 19.7 | 40 | 22.4 | 43.6 | 0 | 46.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-03 | 0 | 0 | 31.9 | 20.6 | 44 | 21.6 | 41.8 | 0 | 42.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-04 | 1 | 1 | 31.6 | 20.2 | 45 | 18.5 | 36 | 0 | 41.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-05 | 2 | 61 | 31.4 | 20.6 | 40 | 20.5 | 40 | 0 | 44.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-06 | 9 | 41 | 32.4 | 19.1 | 38 | 19.9 | 39.6 | 0 | 41.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-07 | 7 | 133 | 32.6 | 20.1 | 37 | 20.5 | 40.3 | 0 | 42.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-08 | 8 | 117 | 32.3 | 20 | 37 | 20.2 | 40 | 0 | 43.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-09 | 5 | 5 | 32.1 | 18.5 | 37 | 19.9 | 39.6 | 0 | 44.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-10 | 11 | 170 | 32.8 | 18.2 | 37 | 18.6 | 36.7 | 0 | 40.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-11 | 7 | 228 | 32.1 | 20.6 | 44 | 17.8 | 36.4 | 0 | 42.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 7 | 73 | 32 | 19.4 | 36 | 20 | 38.2 | 0 | 45.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-13 | 10 | 77 | 32.4 | 18.7 | 35 | 18.1 | 36 | 0 | 40.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-14 | 9 | 34 | 32.9 | 19.2 | 35 | 18.9 | 37.4 | 0 | 43.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-15 | 11 | 52 | 31.7 | 20.1 | 39 | 18.7 | 38.9 | 0 | 44 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-16 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 18.4 | 34 | 20.9 | 41 | 0 | 45.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-17 | 16 | 119 | 31.4 | 16.6 | 36 | 18.1 | 35.6 | 0 | 41.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 30 | 376 | 31.9 | 17.3 | 32 | 18.1 | 35.6 | 0 | 46.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-19 | 14 | 51 | 32.4 | 17.2 | 40 | 17.5 | 34.2 | 0 | 44.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-20 | 7 | 64 | 32.3 | 20.6 | 38 | 17.7 | 36.4 | 0 | 44.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-21 | 27 | 182 | 31.6 | 19.3 | 39 | 18.3 | 36.7 | 0 | 45.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-22 | 10 | 88 | 31.8 | 18.7 | 37 | 19.4 | 38.5 | 0 | 47.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-23 | 10 | 11 | 32.2 | 17.8 | 34 | 16.2 | 34.2 | 0 | 44.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-24 | 2 | 11 | 33 | 18.5 | 28 | 14.6 | 31.3 | 0 | 47.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 7 | 17 | 32.6 | 17.4 | 28 | 15.3 | 31.7 | 0 | 49.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-26 | 7 | 31 | 33 | 16.3 | 30 | 12.9 | 27 | 0 | 45.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-06-27 | 0 | 0 | 32.9 | 16.8 | 29 | 10.6 | 23.4 | 0 | 42.5 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-06-28 | 0 | 0 | 33.9 | 17 | 29 | 11.7 | 25.2 | 0 | 43.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-06-29 | 0 | 0 | 34.1 | 17.9 | 22 | 9.9 | 22.3 | 0 | 41.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-06-30 | 0 | 0 | 33.8 | 16.8 | 27 | 15.5 | 31.3 | 0 | 49.9 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-01 | 0 | 0 | 33.4 | 18.7 | 29 | 17.5 | 36 | 0 | 52.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-07-02 | 0 | 0 | 32.8 | 19.4 | 31 | 19.5 | 40 | 0 | 53.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-07-03 | 0 | 0 | 31.9 | 20.2 | 36 | 20.7 | 41 | 0 | 50.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-07-04 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 17.2 | 29 | 17.2 | 34.2 | 0 | 50 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2024-07-05 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 17.7 | 35 | 18.5 | 37.1 | 0 | 50.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2024-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 32.7 | 17.7 | 30 | 16.6 | 32.8 | 0 | 48.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 3,333ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 31days
- 27 May 2024 – 26 Jun 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 May
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 238
- in a single hotspot: 82 MW
- Danger at start
- 36
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 74MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
27 May26 Jun
26 Jun 2024
How it evolved, day by day
27 May
5 Jun
11 Jun
18 Jun
23 Jun
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
33°high
44km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity
It had gone 37 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
8% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 236 ha in 2016, 5 ha in 2017, 35 ha in 2019.
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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3,349 ha reached on 27 May0.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 May | 33.0 °C | 41 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 May | 32.7 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 29 May | 32.7 °C | 36 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 30 May | 32.9 °C | 34 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 31 May | 33.2 °C | 31 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 1 Jun | 32.0 °C | 37 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 2 Jun | 32.3 °C | 40 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 3 Jun | 31.9 °C | 44 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 4 Jun | 31.6 °C | 45 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 5 Jun | 31.4 °C | 40 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 6 Jun | 32.4 °C | 38 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 7 Jun | 32.6 °C | 37 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 8 Jun | 32.3 °C | 37 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 9 Jun | 32.1 °C | 37 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 10 Jun | 32.8 °C | 37 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 11 Jun | 32.1 °C | 44 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 12 Jun | 32.0 °C | 36 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 13 Jun | 32.4 °C | 35 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 14 Jun | 32.9 °C | 35 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 15 Jun | 31.7 °C | 39 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 16 Jun | 31.0 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 17 Jun | 31.4 °C | 36 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 18 Jun | 31.9 °C | 32 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 19 Jun | 32.4 °C | 40 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 20 Jun | 32.3 °C | 38 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 21 Jun | 31.6 °C | 39 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 22 Jun | 31.8 °C | 37 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 23 Jun | 32.2 °C | 34 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 24 Jun | 33.0 °C | 28 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 25 Jun | 32.6 °C | 28 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 26 Jun | 33.0 °C | 30 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 27 Jun after | 32.9 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 28 Jun after | 33.9 °C | 29 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 29 Jun after | 34.1 °C | 22 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 30 Jun after | 33.8 °C | 27 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 1 Jul after | 33.4 °C | 29 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 2 Jul after | 32.8 °C | 31 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 3 Jul after | 31.9 °C | 36 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 4 Jul after | 31.7 °C | 29 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 5 Jul after | 31.7 °C | 35 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 6 Jul after | 32.7 °C | 30 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 35.5, a minimum humidity of 41% and 37 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 11.
FWI at the start
35.5
Minimum humidity
41 %
Days without rain
37
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Paranã fire, May 2024
3,333 ha
31 days
FWI 35.5
Min. humidity 41 %
Arraias fire, October 2017
8,060 ha
15 days
FWI 35.2
Min. humidity 43 %
116 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Natividade fire, September 2018
4,648 ha
6 days
FWI 32.1
Min. humidity 35 %
91 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 7.5 mm on 1 Oct.
Cavalcante fire, June 2020
3,373 ha
9 days
FWI 30.3
Min. humidity 37 %
127 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Cavalcante fire, September 2025
42,559 ha
18 days
FWI 33.5
Min. humidity 45 %
146 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 7.1 mm on 19 Oct.
Monte Alegre de Goiás fire, June 2023
3,346 ha
6 days
FWI 31.7
Min. humidity 37 %
162 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 11. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
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
44km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 26 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.
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
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 20 May 2024
After · 3 Jul 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 21 June 2024 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.24
WHO 15
30 May4 Jun9 Jun14 Jun19 Jun
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 · 238Every 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
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Paranã fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 27 May 2024 to 26 June 2024 (31 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 June 2024 to 19 June 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,333 hectares (33.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Paranã (3,349 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.2 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 44 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 · 6 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 19 June 2024 → 26 June 2024.
- Start date: 1 June 2024 → 27 May 2024.
- Last day with fire: 26 June 2024 → 19 June 2024.
- Start date: 27 May 2024 → 1 June 2024.
- Last day with fire: 19 June 2024 → 26 June 2024.
- Start date: 1 June 2024 → 27 May 2024.
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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 June 2024 to 19 June 2024. 238 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.
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.