How long did the Perolândia fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 September 2024 and 12 September 2024: 11 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 6,770 hectares (67.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Mineiros (3,160 ha, 0.4 %); Perolândia (2,855 ha, 2.8 %); Jataí (791 ha, 0.1 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, 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 · 2024-09-02 → 2024-09-12

Perolândia fire, 2 September 2024 Mineiros, Perolândia, Jataí

Out · last detection 12 Sept 2024, 04:48 UTC

The fire started on 2 September 2024 in Perolândia, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,770 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 164th largest in Goiás since 2016 (of 548 with a page). Number 477 in Brazil in 2024, of 1301.

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Suggestions: Mineiros · 2020 Perolândia · 2024 Jataí · 2024 Jataí · 2024

Burnt area: 6,770ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 11days; 2 Sept 2024 – 12 Sept 2024
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 2 Sept; 2024
Heat detections: 222; in a single hotspot: 187 MW
Danger at start: 36; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 428MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Sept12 Sept

Play back 12 Sept 2024

How it evolved, day by day

2 Sept 4 Sept 6 Sept 8 Sept 10 Sept 12 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

35°high

46km/h · peak gust

9%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

51% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 44 ha in 2018, 884 ha in 2020, 2,932 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,430 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 4.3% of the area of London (68 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

Mineiros 70,081 inhabitants

3,160 ha reached on 8 Sept

0.4 %
Perolândia 2,964 inhabitants where it started

2,855 ha reached on 2 Sept

2.8 %
Jataí 105,729 inhabitants

791 ha reached on 5 Sept

0.1 %

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 2025

Built-up area1.7 ha

Residents≈ 50

Inside the perimeter there were about 1.7 hectares of built-up land and about 50 residents (GHSL 2025, 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. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

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	Danger (FWI)
27 Aug	31.0 °C	23 %	26 km/h	High 36
28 Aug	32.6 °C	18 %	28 km/h	Very high 40
29 Aug	32.0 °C	23 %	37 km/h	Very high 46
30 Aug	31.7 °C	25 %	35 km/h	Very high 45
31 Aug	33.2 °C	20 %	23 km/h	Very high 38
1 Sept	33.8 °C	15 %	23 km/h	Very high 42
2 Sept	34.2 °C	9 %	22 km/h	Very high 47
3 Sept	34.0 °C	15 %	34 km/h	Extreme 54
4 Sept	34.2 °C	15 %	35 km/h	Extreme 56
5 Sept	34.6 °C	15 %	19 km/h	Very high 47
6 Sept	34.2 °C	17 %	31 km/h	Very high 50
7 Sept	34.5 °C	17 %	40 km/h	Extreme 56
8 Sept	34.1 °C	12 %	46 km/h	Extreme 61
9 Sept	32.5 °C	14 %	41 km/h	Extreme 58
10 Sept	32.9 °C	17 %	36 km/h	Extreme 53
11 Sept	33.1 °C	17 %	42 km/h	Extreme 57
12 Sept	33.8 °C	18 %	31 km/h	Very high 50
13 Sept after	34.3 °C	17 %	31 km/h	Very high 49
14 Sept after	33.2 °C	21 %	35 km/h	Very high 46
15 Sept after	33.9 °C	23 %	33 km/h	Very high 46
16 Sept after	28.8 °C	43 %	36 km/h	High 35
17 Sept after	31.4 °C	35 %	30 km/h	High 34
18 Sept after	34.7 °C	21 %	27 km/h	Very high 38
19 Sept after	32.5 °C	27 %	52 km/h	Extreme 50
20 Sept after	34.2 °C	22 %	41 km/h	Very high 46
21 Sept after	30.8 °C	25 %	32 km/h	Very high 45
22 Sept after	35.1 °C	17 %	31 km/h	Very high 44

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 26 Aug 2024

After · 19 Sept 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 15 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 74 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 42: 2.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak74 µg/m³

Days over the guideline7 days

PM10106 µg/m³

Optical depth1.09

WHO 15

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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 · 222Every 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 Perolândia fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 September 2024 and 12 September 2024: 11 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 6,770 hectares (67.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Mineiros (3,160 ha, 0.4 %); Perolândia (2,855 ha, 2.8 %); Jataí (791 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, 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 ›

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 222 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 2025, 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.

Where it burned