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Wildfires in Barreiras

Barreiras, Brazil, has had 43 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 135,203 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 28° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Low 30° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 31° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 27° · 76 % · 35 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Barreiras: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

135,203
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
43
fires
8,102
km²

How many times has Barreiras burned?

Barreiras has burned 43 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Riachão das Neves fire, October 2026, with 5,982 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 135,203 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 95,886 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 7× 26
43
fires
10
years with fire
135,203
cumulative ha
95,886
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 Barreiras

  1. 5,982 ha Riachão das Neves fire, October 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 10,210 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 15,001 ha Catolândia fire, October 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 21,971 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 185 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,235 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3,855 ha Barreiras fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,833 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 4,353 ha Barreiras fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,325 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 4,381 ha Barreiras fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,355 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,860 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 12,119 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 3,722 ha Barreiras fire, January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,698 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 765 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, 23 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,891 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 159 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, 3 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,664 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 5,153 ha Barreiras fire, October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,121 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 6,134 ha Barreiras fire, September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 13,446 ha in total · 26 days
  13. 501 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 42,198 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 1,425 ha Novo Jardim fire, August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 11,832 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 1,272 ha Barreiras fire, 24 September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 5,425 ha Barreiras fire, 4 September 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,393 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 1,081 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,541 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 5,790 ha Barreiras fire, September 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,753 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 158 ha Barreiras fire, August 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 4,584 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,289 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, August 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 9,634 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 3,981 ha Barreiras fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,537 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 4,153 ha Barreiras fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,496 ha in total · 20 days
  23. 8,229 ha Barreiras fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,182 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 3,231 ha Barreiras fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,213 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 3,321 ha Barreiras fire, September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,302 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 3,858 ha Barreiras fire, May 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,832 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 29 ha Riachão das Neves fire, 12 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 21,907 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 8,054 ha Barreiras fire, September 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 17,315 ha in total · 31 days
  29. 461 ha Dianópolis fire, August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,195 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 712 ha Novo Jardim fire, August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,522 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 7,800 ha Barreiras fire, 20 August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 25,313 ha in total · 9 days
  32. 6,461 ha Barreiras fire, 5 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,423 ha in total · 13 days
  33. 108 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,170 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 8,285 ha Barreiras fire, October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,233 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 1,474 ha Dianópolis fire, September 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 14,969 ha in total · 16 days
  36. 757 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, 5 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 5,249 ha in total · 14 days
  37. 1,195 ha Novo Jardim fire, August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 28,189 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 3,115 ha Barreiras fire, 22 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,097 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 8,899 ha Barreiras fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,848 ha in total · 14 days
  40. 80 ha Riachão das Neves fire, October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,154 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 620 ha Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus fire, October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 5,876 ha in total · 12 days
  42. 796 ha Dianópolis fire, August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 13,590 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 619 ha Novo Jardim fire, 17 August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 5,090 ha in total · 10 days
  44. 3,475 ha Barreiras fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,077 ha in total · 8 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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