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Wildfires in Catingueira

Catingueira, Brazil, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,720 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 21 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 26 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 19 % · 47 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 48 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 39 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

1,720
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
2
fires
531
km²

How many times has Catingueira burned?

Catingueira has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Catingueira fire, September 2022, with 1,715 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,720
cumulative ha
25 Sept 2022
most recent

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 Catingueira

  1. 1,715 ha Catingueira fire, September 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,382 ha in total · 30 days
  2. 5 ha Olho d'Água fire, October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,186 ha in total · 32 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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