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Wildfires in Buritirama

Buritirama, Brazil, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 68,443 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 30° · 55 % · 47 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 31° · 45 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 34° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 35° · 31 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 37 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

68,443
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
17
fires
4,072
km²

How many times has Buritirama burned?

Buritirama has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Barra fire, October 2026, with 4,101 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 68,443 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 62,102 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
68,443
cumulative ha
62,102
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 Buritirama

  1. 4,101 ha Barra fire, October 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 6,588 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5,574 ha Barra fire, October 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 7,288 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 51 ha Mansidão fire, 12 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,187 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 116 ha Mansidão fire, 21 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,902 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,507 ha Barra fire, 16 October 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 12,689 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 2,896 ha Barra fire, 6 September 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 5,014 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 0 ha Júlio Borges fire, September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,749 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 2,257 ha Barra fire, 13 September 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 3,112 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 16,609 ha Barra fire, 28 September 2021 4.1% of the municipality · 18,882 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 6,372 ha Buritirama fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 6,598 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 5,560 ha Buritirama fire, 11 September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 17,595 ha in total · 31 days
  12. 8,804 ha Buritirama fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 8,750 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 1,553 ha Buritirama fire, 8 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,885 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 1,002 ha Mansidão fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 7,434 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 5,047 ha Buritirama fire, November 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,018 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 6,934 ha Barra fire, 23 September 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 10,108 ha in total · 23 days
  17. 59 ha Mansidão fire, November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,251 ha in total · 9 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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