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BR · Brazil · Minas Gerais · 10,380 inhabitants

Wildfires in Capitólio

Capitólio, Brazil, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,780 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.1% 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. Fri 23 Very low 25° · 63 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 63 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 74 % · 52 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 70 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 81 % · 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

4,780
hectares burned
9.1 %
of its area
1
fires
525
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Capitólio

  1. 4,780 ha Capitólio fire, September 2019 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 4,755 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).