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Wildfires in Barra

Barra, Brazil, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 593,387 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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. Fri 23 Very high 38° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 39° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 38° · 23 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 35° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 34° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 50 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 38 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

593,387
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
32
fires
11,494
km²

How many times has Barra burned?

Barra has burned 32 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Barra fire, October 2026, with 2,520 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 593,387 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 377,065 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
32
fires
11
years with fire
593,387
cumulative ha
377,065
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 Barra

  1. 2,520 ha Barra fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,588 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,829 ha Barra fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,801 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 72,141 ha Barra fire, 20 September 2026 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 72,049 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 49,416 ha Barra fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 49,060 ha in total · 35 days
  5. 3,722 ha Barra fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,697 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,755 ha Barra fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,288 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 65,489 ha Barra fire, August 2025 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 65,009 ha in total · 52 days
  8. 3,977 ha Barra fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,950 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,184 ha Barra fire, 27 October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,489 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 10,690 ha Barra fire, 16 October 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 12,689 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 14,050 ha Barra fire, 1 October 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 14,514 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 8,219 ha Barra fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,163 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 2,146 ha Barra fire, 6 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,014 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 10,571 ha Barra fire, July 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 10,493 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 4,440 ha Barra fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,414 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 35,452 ha Barra fire, 27 September 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 35,210 ha in total · 27 days
  17. 872 ha Barra fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,112 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 2,398 ha Barra fire, 28 September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 18,882 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 261 ha Buritirama fire, 13 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 6,598 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 204,096 ha Wanderley fire, September 2021 18% of the municipality · 216,996 ha in total · 41 days
  21. 3,270 ha Barra fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,248 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 7,221 ha Barra fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,607 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 3,554 ha Barra fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,534 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 2,879 ha Mansidão fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 7,434 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 8,097 ha Barra fire, September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,038 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 2,197 ha Mansidão fire, October 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 6,288 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 3,227 ha Barra fire, 23 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 10,108 ha in total · 23 days
  28. 4,453 ha Barra fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,424 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 9,913 ha Barra fire, October 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,837 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 3,721 ha Barra fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,691 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 12,783 ha Barra fire, October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 12,685 ha in total · 27 days
  32. 33,842 ha Barra fire, August 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 33,632 ha in total · 43 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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