Paranatinga fire, June 2026 Paranatinga
The fire started on 26 June 2026 in Paranatinga, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 20,898 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 178th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 27 in Brazil in 2026, of 749.
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- Burnt area
- 20,898ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 17days
- 26 Jun 2026 – 12 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 26 Jun
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 735
- in a single hotspot: 303 MW
- Danger at start
- 3
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 643MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 17,569 ha in 2017, 1,399 ha in 2018, 17,437 ha in 2019, 10,087 ha in 2020, 18,923 ha in 2021, 16,929 ha in 2023, 7,847 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 20,567 ha that had burned before.
- 13,540 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2019 20,508 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 13,160 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2017 25,261 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 6,839 ha Paranatinga fire, July 2021 6,671 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,723 ha Paranatinga fire, October 2025 6,553 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,676 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2023 16,795 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,007 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2023 4,709 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,708 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2021 5,666 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,340 ha Paranatinga fire, August 2023 6,787 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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21,019 ha reached on 26 Jun0.9 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jul | 24.0 °C | 39 % | 5 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 9 Jul | 34.3 °C | 21 % | 6 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 10 Jul | 34.8 °C | 24 % | 7 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 11 Jul | 34.2 °C | 30 % | 5 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 12 Jul | 30.5 °C | 45 % | 7 km/h | 0.6 mm | Low 10 |
| 13 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 34 % | 7 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 14 Jul after | 34.5 °C | 28 % | 5 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 15 Jul after | 34.7 °C | 28 % | 7 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 16 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 35 % | 10 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 17 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 29 % | 10 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 18 Jul after | 32.8 °C | 24 % | 9 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 19 Jul after | 33.5 °C | 25 % | 9 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 20 Jul after | 34.0 °C | 24 % | 8 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 21 Jul after | 34.2 °C | 21 % | 8 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 22 Jul after | 34.8 °C | 22 % | 7 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 23 Jul after | 34.8 °C | 23 % | 7 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 24 Jul after | 35.2 °C | 23 % | 7 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Jul after | 36.2 °C | 23 % | 6 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 26 Jul after | 36.0 °C | 20 % | 6 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 27 Jul after | 35.8 °C | 21 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 28 Jul after | 35.8 °C | 23 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 29 Jul after | 33.8 °C | 36 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
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 7 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 255 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 93: 6.2 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 · 735Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 20,508 haParanatinga29 August 2019 · 24 days · 6 km away
- 25,261 haParanatinga19 August 2017 · 39 days · 8 km away
- 16,795 haParanatinga4 August 2023 · 12 days · 16 km away
- 15,503 haParanatinga2 September 2020 · 21 days · 18 km away
- 20,889 haParanatinga3 September 2019 · 20 days · 36 km away
- 20,623 haParanatinga15 September 2017 · 12 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Paranatinga fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 26 June 2026 and 12 July 2026: 17 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 20,898 hectares (209.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Paranatinga (21,019 ha, 0.9 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.8 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 10 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, 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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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 735 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.