Planaltina fire, June 2025 Planaltina
The fire started on 10 June 2025 in Planaltina, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,293 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 331th largest in Goiás since 2016 (of 548 with a page). Number 434 in Brazil in 2025, of 714.
The power measured by the satellite is low (15.1 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 4,293ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 11days
- 10 Jun 2025 – 20 Jun 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 10 Jun
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 137
- in a single hotspot: 15 MW
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 463MW
- 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 39 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,359 ha in 2016, 2,710 ha in 2017, 4,317 ha in 2019, 3,480 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,309 ha that had burned before.
- 3,480 ha Planaltina fire, September 2021 25,100 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,130 ha Planaltina fire, August 2019 3,830 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,710 ha Planaltina fire, October 2017 31,311 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,359 ha Planaltina fire, September 2016 17,826 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 310 ha Planaltina fire, October 2019 7,700 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 136 ha Padre Bernardo fire, August 2019 11,657 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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4,321 ha reached on 10 Jun1.7 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun | 27.6 °C | 40 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 11 Jun | 27.2 °C | 40 % | 22 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
| 12 Jun | 25.9 °C | 43 % | 31 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 25 |
| 13 Jun | 24.9 °C | 52 % | 46 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 14 Jun | 24.1 °C | 45 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 15 Jun | 24.6 °C | 41 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 16 Jun | 25.2 °C | 34 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 17 Jun | 25.3 °C | 41 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 18 Jun | 25.5 °C | 41 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 19 Jun | 25.2 °C | 44 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 20 Jun | 25.7 °C | 35 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 21 Jun after | 27.4 °C | 29 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 22 Jun after | 28.1 °C | 31 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 23 Jun after | 29.2 °C | 32 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 24 Jun after | 25.3 °C | 54 % | 38 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Jun after | 27.1 °C | 43 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 26 Jun after | 26.2 °C | 42 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Jun after | 27.4 °C | 37 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 28 Jun after | 26.9 °C | 39 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 29 Jun after | 27.0 °C | 33 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 30 Jun after | 26.9 °C | 32 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
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 11 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 137Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 25,100 haPlanaltina11 September 2021 · 14 days · 2 km away
- 31,311 haPlanaltina7 October 2017 · 16 days · 7 km away
- 11,657 haPadre BernardoAugust 2019 · 29 days · 9 km away
- 17,826 haPlanaltina9 September 2016 · 11 days · 11 km away
- 10,304 haPlanaltina10 September 2021 · 14 days · 31 km away
- 11,734 haMimoso de Goiás10 September 2019 · 17 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Planaltina fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 June 2025 and 20 June 2025: 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 4,293 hectares (42.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Planaltina (4,321 ha, 1.7 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 27.6 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 46 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class 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.