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Wildfires in Caxias

Caxias, Brazil, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 44,335 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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 31 High 37° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 37° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 38° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 38° · 28 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 38° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 39° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 39° · 24 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 39° · 24 % · 49 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

44,335
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
11
fires
5,231
km²

How many times has Caxias burned?

Caxias has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Caxias fire, September 2026, with 3,359 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 44,335 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 42,255 hectares, 8.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
44,335
cumulative ha
42,255
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 Caxias

  1. 3,359 ha Caxias fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,338 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,924 ha Caxias fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,893 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,381 ha Caxias fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,071 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 3,702 ha Caxias fire, August 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,724 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 3,163 ha Caxias fire, September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,141 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 6,253 ha Caxias fire, 11 October 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,209 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 9,771 ha Caxias fire, 11 October 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 9,702 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 516 ha Caxias fire, 11 October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,481 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 626 ha Aldeias Altas fire, October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,732 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 4,627 ha Caxias fire, 9 October 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,596 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 4,014 ha Caxias fire, 2 October 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,989 ha in total · 18 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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