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Wildfires in Carolina

Carolina, Brazil, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 110,885 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 34° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 38° · 38 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 35° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 34° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 35° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 34° · 55 % · 29 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

110,885
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
29
fires
6,482
km²

How many times has Carolina burned?

Carolina has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Carolina fire, 18 September 2026, with 5,644 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 110,885 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 88,989 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
29
fires
8
years with fire
110,885
cumulative ha
88,989
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 Carolina

  1. 5,644 ha Carolina fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,611 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,555 ha Carolina fire, 15 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,529 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,183 ha Carolina fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,165 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 3,106 ha Carolina fire, 27 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,086 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 16 ha Riachão fire, 27 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,874 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 16,145 ha Carolina fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 16,028 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 28 ha Goiatins fire, 24 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,504 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 5,473 ha Riachão fire, 12 September 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 6,902 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 3,112 ha Carolina fire, 9 September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,093 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 5,572 ha Carolina fire, 5 September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,541 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 4,677 ha Carolina fire, 2 September 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,647 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 5,356 ha Carolina fire, 29 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,326 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 289 ha Carolina fire, 29 August 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 13,158 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 3,378 ha Carolina fire, August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,303 ha Carolina fire, September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 3,387 ha Carolina fire, August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,368 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 2 ha Goiatins fire, 26 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,585 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 5,478 ha Riachão fire, 6 September 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 7,110 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 3,685 ha Carolina fire, 2 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,664 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 4,415 ha Carolina fire, 1 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,390 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 3,043 ha Carolina fire, August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,020 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 4,598 ha Carolina fire, 25 August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,569 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 3,275 ha Carolina fire, 14 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,252 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 3,345 ha Carolina fire, October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,326 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 1,336 ha Carolina fire, 20 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,178 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 5,541 ha Carolina fire, 17 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,502 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 3,102 ha Carolina fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 3,090 ha Carolina fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,068 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 2,751 ha Riachão fire, 18 August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 4 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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