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Pium fire, June 2026 Pium

Out · last detection 30 Jun 2026, 17:32 UTC

The fire started on 22 June 2026 in Pium, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,744 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 493th largest in Tocantins since 2016 (of 1242 with a page). Number 276 in Brazil in 2026, of 747.

Burnt area
5,744ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
22 Jun 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
22 Jun
2026
Heat detections
71
in a single hotspot: 50 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

30 Jun 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jun30 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

23242526282930

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

36°high
40km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 54 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,541 ha in 2016, 3,913 ha in 2017, 346 ha in 2018, 4,300 ha in 2019, 51 ha in 2021, 2,132 ha in 2022, 2,925 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,322 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Pium 7,128 inhabitants where it started
    5,788 ha reached on 23 Jun
    0.6 %

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)
22 Jun 35.3 °C 31 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
23 Jun 35.1 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Jun 35.3 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Jun 35.5 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
26 Jun 34.2 °C 32 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
27 Jun 33.4 °C 45 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Jun 34.3 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Jun 33.7 °C 40 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
30 Jun 34.4 °C 37 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
1 Jul after 34.6 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
2 Jul after 33.4 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
3 Jul after 34.0 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
4 Jul after 34.8 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
5 Jul after 35.4 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Jul after 35.8 °C 31 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Jul after 35.2 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Jul after 36.1 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
9 Jul after 35.4 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
10 Jul after 34.4 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
11 Jul after 34.5 °C 45 % 25 km/h 0.1 mm High 27
12 Jul after 34.6 °C 40 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
13 Jul after 34.8 °C 40 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Jul after 35.9 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jun 2026
After · 7 Jul 2026

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 24 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.21
2021222324252627282930123
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 · 71Every 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 Pium fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 June 2026 and 30 June 2026: 9 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 5,744 hectares (57.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Pium (5,788 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, 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

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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.