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Santo Antônio do Leste fire, 26 July 2016 Santo Antônio do Leste, Paranatinga

Out · last detection 4 Aug 2016, 17:39 UTC

The fire started on 26 July 2016 in Santo Antônio do Leste, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,196 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 1337th largest in Mato Grosso since 2016 (of 1996 with a page). Number 376 in Brazil in 2016, of 649.

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Burnt area
4,196ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
10days
26 Jul 2016 – 4 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
26 Jul
2016
Heat detections
94
in a single hotspot: 31 MW
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index
Average daily power
119MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jul4 Aug
4 Aug 2016

How it evolved, day by day

26 Jul 2016 · 19 MW · 4 28 Jul 2016 · 193 MW · 17 29 Jul 2016 · 8 MW · 2 30 Jul 2016 · 421 MW · 35 31 Jul 2016 · 34 MW · 6 1 Aug 2016 · 321 MW · 24 2 Aug 2016 · 24 MW · 1 3 Aug 2016 · 17 MW · 3 4 Aug 2016 · 34 MW · 2
26 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul 2 Aug 4 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
38km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

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

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 2.6% of the area of London (42 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. Santo Antônio do Leste 4,099 inhabitants where it started
    4,187 ha reached on 26 Jul
    1.2 %
  2. Paranatinga 26,423 inhabitants
    30 ha
    0.0 %

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 2015
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, 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.

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)
19 Jul 32.2 °C 33 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
20 Jul 31.7 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
21 Jul 32.2 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Jul 32.3 °C 31 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
23 Jul 32.9 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
24 Jul 32.6 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jul 31.1 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
26 Jul 32.9 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
27 Jul 33.3 °C 28 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
28 Jul 33.0 °C 32 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
29 Jul 34.0 °C 25 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Jul 32.5 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Jul 31.6 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
1 Aug 32.1 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
2 Aug 32.9 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
3 Aug 33.1 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
4 Aug 34.1 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Aug after 34.0 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Aug after 33.2 °C 35 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
7 Aug after 34.2 °C 30 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
8 Aug after 35.1 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
9 Aug after 35.4 °C 26 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
10 Aug after 33.8 °C 36 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Aug after 34.0 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
12 Aug after 34.5 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Aug after 35.9 °C 31 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
14 Aug after 36.0 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 19 Jul 2016
After · 11 Aug 2016

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 94Every 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 Santo Antônio do Leste fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 26 July 2016 to 4 August 2016 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 July 2016 to 2 August 2016.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 4,196 hectares (42.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Santo Antônio do Leste (4,187 ha, 1.2 %); Paranatinga (30 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 2 August 2016 → 4 August 2016.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 26 July 2016 to 2 August 2016. 94 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 2015, 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.