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Wildfires in Barra do Corda

Barra do Corda, Brazil, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 181,604 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Mon 2 Low 35° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 6 High 36° · 33 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 7 High 36° · 37 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 8 High 36° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 34° · 50 % · 28 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

181,604
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
32
fires
5,226
km²

How many times has Barra do Corda burned?

Barra do Corda has burned 32 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Barra do Corda fire, September 2026, with 3,980 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 181,604 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 103,405 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 4× 26
32
fires
8
years with fire
181,604
cumulative ha
103,405
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 do Corda

  1. 3,980 ha Barra do Corda fire, September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,952 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 6 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 11 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,347 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 590 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 4 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,978 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 5,804 ha Barra do Corda fire, June 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,763 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 3,295 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 22 August 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 8,150 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 10,700 ha Barra do Corda fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 10,626 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 7,019 ha Barra do Corda fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,969 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 1,009 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 15 August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 7,547 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 4,893 ha Barra do Corda fire, September 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,860 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 1,737 ha Fernando Falcão fire, July 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 3,192 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,073 ha Barra do Corda fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,052 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,913 ha Barra do Corda fire, 29 October 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,885 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 4,761 ha Barra do Corda fire, 11 October 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,728 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 5,222 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 7 September 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 12,543 ha in total · 22 days
  15. 9,133 ha Barra do Corda fire, September 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 9,071 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 937 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 6 September 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 10,345 ha Barra do Corda fire, August 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 10,272 ha in total · 29 days
  18. 3,060 ha Barra do Corda fire, September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,039 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 11,972 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 11 August 2018 2.3% of the municipality · 18,300 ha in total · 24 days
  20. 5,084 ha Barra do Corda fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,524 ha in total · 22 days
  21. 6,097 ha Barra do Corda fire, 10 September 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,056 ha in total · 31 days
  22. 2,929 ha Barra do Corda fire, 10 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,288 ha in total · 26 days
  23. 3,159 ha Barra do Corda fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,139 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 346 ha Tuntum fire, September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,407 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 14,770 ha Barra do Corda fire, 4 September 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 15,420 ha in total · 41 days
  26. 2,249 ha Barra do Corda fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 100,645 ha in total · 56 days
  27. 31,009 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 13 August 2017 5.9% of the municipality · 35,272 ha in total · 47 days
  28. 927 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, July 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 5,457 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 3,095 ha Barra do Corda fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 4,510 ha Barra do Corda fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,478 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 3,856 ha Barra do Corda fire, 1 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,831 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 12,123 ha Jenipapo dos Vieiras fire, 14 July 2016 2.3% of the municipality · 17,664 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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