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Wildfires in Benedito Leite

Benedito Leite, Brazil, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 67,086 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Very low 32° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 34° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 34° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Moderate 37° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Moderate 37° · 31 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 35° · 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

67,086
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
20
fires
1,794
km²

How many times has Benedito Leite burned?

Benedito Leite has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Uruçuí fire, 19 September 2026, with 88 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 67,086 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 51,703 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 2× 26
20
fires
7
years with fire
67,086
cumulative ha
51,703
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 Benedito Leite

  1. 88 ha Uruçuí fire, 19 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,441 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 3,306 ha Benedito Leite fire, September 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,284 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,886 ha São Domingos do Azeitão fire, 9 September 2025 2.2% of the municipality · 6,720 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,647 ha Benedito Leite fire, September 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,889 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 4,164 ha Benedito Leite fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,137 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 7,072 ha Benedito Leite fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 8,005 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 4,127 ha Benedito Leite fire, 19 August 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,873 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 3,665 ha Benedito Leite fire, 18 August 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,642 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 3,014 ha Benedito Leite fire, 8 August 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,520 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 3,193 ha Benedito Leite fire, 5 August 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,567 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, 21 August 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 8,779 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 2,425 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, 20 August 2024 1.4% of the municipality · 8,264 ha in total · 20 days
  13. 2,343 ha Benedito Leite fire, September 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,077 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,672 ha Benedito Leite fire, August 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,648 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 10 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,416 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 4,885 ha Benedito Leite fire, August 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,853 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 5,587 ha Benedito Leite fire, 10 September 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 6,276 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 3,072 ha Benedito Leite fire, 6 September 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 21 days
  19. 315 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, 26 August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,679 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 6,049 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, 21 August 2017 3.4% of the municipality · 11,924 ha in total · 37 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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