Vila Propício fire, August 2026 Vila Propício, Mimoso de Goiás, Padre Bernardo
The fire started on 12 August 2026 in Vila Propício, Brazil, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 8,223 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 125th largest in Goiás since 2016 (of 548 with a page). Number 158 in Brazil in 2026, of 757.
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- Burnt area
- 8,223ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 15days
- 12 Aug 2026 – 26 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 12 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 153
- in a single hotspot: 137 MW
- Danger at start
- 42
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 126MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 59 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 5 Sept.
This area had burned before
93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,446 ha in 2017, 524 ha in 2018, 2,258 ha in 2019, 5,265 ha in 2021, 955 ha in 2022, 2,018 ha in 2023, 5,033 ha in 2024, 3,445 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 7,649 ha that had burned before.
- 3,655 ha Vila Propício fire, August 2021 7,567 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,359 ha Vila Propício fire, August 2025 5,070 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,488 ha Mimoso de Goiás fire, August 2019 5,396 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 312 ha Mimoso de Goiás fire, August 2024 13,145 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 258 ha Vila Propício fire, September 2019 6,011 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 19 ha Mimoso de Goiás fire, August 2017 12,341 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3 ha Mimoso de Goiás fire, September 2021 11,471 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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7,860 ha reached on 12 Aug3.6 %
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Mimoso de Goiás 2,614 inhabitants325 ha reached on 16 Aug0.2 %
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Padre Bernardo 34,967 inhabitants83 ha0.0 %
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 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 0.44 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug | 32.7 °C | 24 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 13 Aug | 33.2 °C | 23 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 14 Aug | 33.9 °C | 21 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 15 Aug | 35.1 °C | 15 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 16 Aug | 34.7 °C | 19 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 17 Aug | 32.8 °C | 24 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 18 Aug | 33.1 °C | 26 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 19 Aug | 33.7 °C | 22 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 20 Aug | 35.1 °C | 16 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 21 Aug | 35.0 °C | 19 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 22 Aug | 35.1 °C | 22 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 23 Aug | 35.8 °C | 19 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 24 Aug | 35.2 °C | 20 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 25 Aug | 35.9 °C | 21 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 26 Aug | 36.3 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 27 Aug after | 35.1 °C | 24 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 28 Aug after | 36.1 °C | 20 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 29 Aug after | 36.3 °C | 22 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 30 Aug after | 37.0 °C | 21 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 31 Aug after | 37.6 °C | 16 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 1 Sept after | 37.1 °C | 19 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 2 Sept after | 32.9 °C | 34 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 3 Sept after | 35.5 °C | 30 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 4 Sept after | 33.0 °C | 39 % | 26 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 34 |
| 5 Sept after | 33.8 °C | 36 % | 29 km/h | 1.1 mm | High 24 |
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 13 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 57 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 27: 1.8 times the WHO daily 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 · 153Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 11,471 haMimoso de GoiásSeptember 2021 · 18 days · 9 km away
- 12,341 haMimoso de GoiásAugust 2017 · 21 days · 11 km away
- 13,145 haMimoso de Goiás28 August 2024 · 25 days · 12 km away
- 9,862 haMimoso de GoiásSeptember 2026 · 14 days · 19 km away
- 9,752 haMimoso de GoiásAugust 2021 · 15 days · 21 km away
- 8,909 haNiquelândia11 September 2019 · 12 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Vila Propício fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 August 2026 to 26 August 2026 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 August 2026 to 22 August 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 8,223 hectares (82.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Vila Propício (7,860 ha, 3.6 %); Mimoso de Goiás (325 ha, 0.2 %); Padre Bernardo (83 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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.
- Last day with fire: 22 August 2026 → 26 August 2026.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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 12 August 2026 to 22 August 2026. 153 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.
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.