Paranatinga fire, October 2025 Paranatinga
The fire started on 26 October 2025 in Paranatinga, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,553 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 792th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 231 in Brazil in 2025, of 714.
- Burnt area
- 6,553ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 26 Oct 2025 – 31 Oct 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 26 Oct
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 119
- in a single hotspot: 56 MW
- Danger at start
- 13
- Moderate · FWI index
- Energy released
- 1.6GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 21.0 mm on 3 Nov.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5,108 ha in 2017, 5,035 ha in 2019, 5,026 ha in 2020, 4,968 ha in 2021, 5,767 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,573 ha that had burned before.
- 4,479 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2017 25,261 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,911 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2019 20,508 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,852 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2023 16,795 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,572 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2023 4,709 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,290 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2021 5,666 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,273 ha Paranatinga fire, July 2021 6,671 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,730 ha Paranatinga fire, September 2020 15,503 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 343 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2023 6,787 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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6,592 ha reached on 26 Oct0.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct | 35.2 °C | 30 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 27 Oct | 32.7 °C | 44 % | 27 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 28 Oct | 32.6 °C | 42 % | 28 km/h | 0.7 mm | Low 10 |
| 29 Oct | 33.6 °C | 45 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 30 Oct | 33.1 °C | 47 % | 28 km/h | 1.4 mm | Low 7 |
| 31 Oct | 32.7 °C | 46 % | 24 km/h | 3.2 mm | Very low 2 |
| 1 Nov after | 33.4 °C | 44 % | 24 km/h | 1.3 mm | Very low 5 |
| 2 Nov after | 34.4 °C | 40 % | 21 km/h | 0.5 mm | Low 10 |
| 3 Nov after | 31.2 °C | 62 % | 20 km/h | 21.0 mm | Very low 0 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 28 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 101 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 43: 2.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 119Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 25,261 haParanatinga19 August 2017 · 39 days · 6 km away
- 16,795 haParanatinga4 August 2023 · 12 days · 6 km away
- 20,508 haParanatinga29 August 2019 · 24 days · 7 km away
- 15,503 haParanatinga2 September 2020 · 21 days · 8 km away
- 20,898 haParanatingaJune 2026 · 17 days · 11 km away
- 20,889 haParanatinga3 September 2019 · 20 days · 35 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Paranatinga fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 26 October 2025 and 31 October 2025: 6 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,553 hectares (65.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Paranatinga (6,592 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 29 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 13, class Moderate.
- 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
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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.