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Regeneração fire, 28 August 2025 Regeneração, Jardim do Mulato

Out · last detection 21 Sept 2025, 04:35 UTC

The fire started on 28 August 2025 in Regeneração, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 25 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,419 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 128th largest in Piaui since 2016 (of 665 with a page). Number 131 in Brazil in 2025, of 526.

Burnt area
8,419ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
25days
28 Aug 2025 – 21 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
28 Aug
2025
Heat detections
194
in a single hotspot: 260 MW
Danger at start
57
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
122MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Aug21 Sept
21 Sept 2025

How it evolved, day by day

28 Aug 2025 · 118 MW · 14 29 Aug 2025 · 28 MW · 4 30 Aug 2025 · 20 MW · 7 31 Aug 2025 · 27 MW · 6 1 Sept 2025 · 25 MW · 5 2 Sept 2025 · 66 MW · 15 3 Sept 2025 · 1,544 MW · 19 4 Sept 2025 · 322 MW · 14 5 Sept 2025 · 10 MW · 7 6 Sept 2025 · 197 MW · 11 7 Sept 2025 · 115 MW · 11 8 Sept 2025 · 3 MW · 1 10 Sept 2025 · 4 MW · 1 11 Sept 2025 · 33 MW · 10 12 Sept 2025 · 22 MW · 11 13 Sept 2025 · 33 MW · 7 15 Sept 2025 · 13 MW · 3 16 Sept 2025 · 48 MW · 9 17 Sept 2025 · 38 MW · 11 18 Sept 2025 · 69 MW · 16 19 Sept 2025 · 34 MW · 3 20 Sept 2025 · 15 MW · 2 21 Sept 2025 · 15 MW · 7
28 Aug 3 Sept 7 Sept 13 Sept 19 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

38°high
51km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

56% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,055 ha in 2016, 1,184 ha in 2017, 795 ha in 2018, 2,885 ha in 2019, 122 ha in 2021, 1,347 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,721 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 5.3% of the area of London (84 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

  1. Regeneração 17,133 inhabitants where it started
    5,195 ha reached on 28 Aug
    4.1 %
  2. Jardim do Mulato 4,180 inhabitants
    3,403 ha reached on 28 Aug
    6.6 %

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 area0.63 ha
Residents≈ 50

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.63 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 Rain Danger (FWI)
28 Aug 36.3 °C 18 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
29 Aug 36.7 °C 21 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
30 Aug 35.9 °C 18 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
31 Aug 36.5 °C 20 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
1 Sept 35.3 °C 30 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
2 Sept 35.8 °C 26 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
3 Sept 35.5 °C 22 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
4 Sept 35.7 °C 25 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
5 Sept 35.3 °C 26 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
6 Sept 35.9 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
7 Sept 36.4 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
8 Sept 35.8 °C 20 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
9 Sept 36.1 °C 20 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
10 Sept 37.8 °C 19 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
11 Sept 37.7 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
12 Sept 37.0 °C 22 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
13 Sept 35.6 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
14 Sept 35.7 °C 22 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
15 Sept 36.3 °C 25 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
16 Sept 35.3 °C 29 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
17 Sept 36.7 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Sept 37.1 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
19 Sept 37.0 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
20 Sept 36.1 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
21 Sept 36.1 °C 28 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Sept after 35.7 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
23 Sept after 37.8 °C 27 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
24 Sept after 37.3 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Sept after 36.4 °C 23 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
26 Sept after 36.0 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
27 Sept after 35.6 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
28 Sept after 35.7 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
29 Sept after 35.5 °C 29 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
30 Sept after 36.6 °C 24 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
1 Oct after 35.8 °C 28 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 56.9, a minimum humidity of 18% and 14 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 20.

FWI at the start 56.9
Minimum humidity 18 %
Days without rain 14
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Aroeiras do Itaim fire, October 2019
5,119 ha 12 days FWI 55.3 Min. humidity 18 % 146 km away, in 2019

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

What happened to them

12 days
median duration
3,754 ha
median area
5 %
went past 10,000 ha
2.7 mm
rain at the end (median; 10 of 20 had it)

It was 2.2 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 25 days, against 12 days.

Only 1 of its 20 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 10 of 20, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.7 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
51km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 21 Sept, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 10 of 20, with a median of 2.7 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Aug 2025
After · 28 Sept 2025

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 23 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1013 µg/m³
Optical depth0.36
26 Aug1 Sept7 Sept13 Sept19 Sept
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 · 194Every 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 Regeneração fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 28 August 2025 and 21 September 2025: 25 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 8,419 hectares (84.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Regeneração (5,195 ha, 4.1 %); Jardim do Mulato (3,403 ha, 6.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 65, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 20. Their median duration was 12 days and their median area 3,754 ha; 5 % went past 10,000 ha. Only 1 of its 20 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 10 of 20, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.7 mm.

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

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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. 194 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.