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Wildfires in Amarante do Maranhão

Amarante do Maranhão, Brazil, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 165,926 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 High 37° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 35° · 40 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 36° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 36° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 34° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 46 % · 27 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

165,926
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
25
fires
7,486
km²

How many times has Amarante do Maranhão burned?

Amarante do Maranhão has burned 25 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Amarante do Maranhão fire, October 2026, with 2,731 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 165,926 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 133,110 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 13× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
25
fires
6
years with fire
165,926
cumulative ha
133,110
distinct ha

Fires larger than 3,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Brazil →

Fires that entered Amarante do Maranhão

  1. 2,731 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,202 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,109 ha Grajaú fire, 29 August 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 5,700 ha in total · 25 days
  3. 3,500 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 10 September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,475 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 3,108 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 8 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,088 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 5,258 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,223 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 4,215 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, October 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,187 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3,080 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 3,218 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 18 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,198 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 3,009 ha Arame fire, 18 October 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 3,066 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 6,522 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 18 October 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,774 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 4,553 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,527 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 41 ha Arame fire, 9 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 13,723 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 13,805 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 24 September 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 13,715 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 5,958 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 19 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,915 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 3,690 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 17 September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 5,309 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,330 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 18,221 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 4 September 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 18,104 ha in total · 29 days
  18. 31,054 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 29 August 2017 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 30,844 ha in total · 36 days
  19. 698 ha Arame fire, 27 August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 9,709 ha in total · 32 days
  20. 434 ha Montes Altos fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 32,330 ha in total · 36 days
  21. 5,209 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,180 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 3,263 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 28 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,241 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 9,856 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 18 August 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,796 ha in total · 32 days
  24. 4,277 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, 4 August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,247 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 23,808 ha Amarante do Maranhão fire, July 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 29,518 ha in total · 32 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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