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BR · Brazil · Minas Gerais · 23,910 inhabitants

Wildfires in Buritizeiro

Buritizeiro, Brazil, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 38,597 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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. Fri 23 High 34° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 38° · 25 % · 55 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 42 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 70 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 57 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 76 % · 40 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

38,597
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
8
fires
7,260
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Buritizeiro

  1. 18,803 ha Buritizeiro fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 18,688 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 5,336 ha Buritizeiro fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,308 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,340 ha São Gonçalo do Abaeté fire, September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 20,346 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 879 ha Buritizeiro fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,754 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 4,245 ha Buritizeiro fire, 17 October 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,223 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 5,259 ha Buritizeiro fire, 11 October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,233 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 227 ha São Gonçalo do Abaeté fire, September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 10,410 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,508 ha Buritizeiro fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,121 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).