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Wildfires in Brasília

Brasília, Brazil, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 24,860 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 11 Very low 25° · 74 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 27° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 27° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 25° · 71 % · 39 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 23° · 82 % · 41 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 23° · 84 % · 44 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 Brasília: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

24,860
hectares burned
4.3 %
of its area
9
fires
5,800
km²

How many times has Brasília burned?

Brasília has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Brasília fire, September 2025, with 4,039 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 24,860 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,898 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
24,860
cumulative ha
17,898
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 Brasília

  1. 4,039 ha Brasília fire, September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,020 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 37 ha Formosa fire, 8 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,212 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,050 ha Brasília fire, September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,029 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,978 ha Brasília fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,959 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 6,967 ha Brasília fire, 11 September 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,233 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 19 ha Planaltina fire, 4 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 25,100 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 27 ha Planaltina fire, 13 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 7,700 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 7 ha Planaltina fire, 5 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,694 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 5,736 ha Brasília fire, August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,709 ha in total · 6 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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