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Wildfires in Cocos

Cocos, Brazil, has had 63 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 348,159 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 36° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 25 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 38° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 70 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 64 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 77 % · 36 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

348,159
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
63
fires
10,199
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cocos

  1. 3,580 ha Cocos fire, 30 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,562 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 34 ha Formoso fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 7,356 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 16,078 ha Cocos fire, 20 September 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 15,974 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 5,744 ha Cocos fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,215 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,305 ha Cocos fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,750 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3,455 ha Cocos fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,439 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 292 ha Chapada Gaúcha fire, October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,919 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 5,027 ha Cocos fire, 29 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 15,027 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 3,675 ha Cocos fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,653 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 12,964 ha Cocos fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 12,875 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 7,561 ha Bonito de Minas fire, September 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 7,970 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 6,679 ha Cocos fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,631 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 3,142 ha Cocos fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,120 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 3,512 ha Cocos fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 6,777 ha Cocos fire, 13 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 11,943 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 9,511 ha Cocos fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,466 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 8,111 ha Cocos fire, 29 August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,612 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 5,096 ha Cocos fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,061 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 146 ha Coribe fire, 8 October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,108 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 3,091 ha Cocos fire, 28 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 3,221 ha Cocos fire, 23 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,200 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 3,386 ha Cocos fire, 22 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 2,624 ha Jaborandi fire, September 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 11,709 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 5,284 ha Cocos fire, 16 September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,250 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 4,311 ha Cocos fire, 16 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,285 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 6,094 ha Cocos fire, 8 September 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,056 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 4,573 ha Cocos fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,545 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 3,801 ha Cocos fire, September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,774 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 3,723 ha Cocos fire, June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,701 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 4,115 ha Cocos fire, 13 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,092 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 3,655 ha Cocos fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,634 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 8,052 ha Cocos fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 11,401 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 6,992 ha Cocos fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,968 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 184 ha Jaborandi fire, 5 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,612 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 4,586 ha Cocos fire, 4 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,555 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 8,593 ha Cocos fire, 4 October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,543 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 3,677 ha Cocos fire, 4 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,663 ha in total · 6 days
  38. 3,207 ha Cocos fire, 2 October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,187 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 3,712 ha Cocos fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,696 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 6,056 ha Cocos fire, 20 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,025 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 6,466 ha Cocos fire, 19 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 3,914 ha Cocos fire, 17 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,149 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 106 ha Jaborandi fire, 16 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,196 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 3,037 ha Cocos fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,020 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 7,125 ha Cocos fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 37,838 ha in total · 12 days
  46. 615 ha Bonito de Minas fire, 13 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 13,062 ha in total · 12 days
  47. 208 ha Formoso fire, 10 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,561 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 8,586 ha Cocos fire, 10 September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,482 ha in total · 13 days
  49. 8,562 ha Cocos fire, 10 September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,523 ha in total · 12 days
  50. 3,423 ha Cocos fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,399 ha in total · 6 days
  51. 3,789 ha Cocos fire, 7 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,769 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 5,530 ha Cocos fire, 6 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,503 ha in total · 12 days
  53. 5,549 ha Cocos fire, August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,513 ha in total · 3 days
  54. 3,210 ha Cocos fire, 7 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,885 ha in total · 3 days
  55. 9,224 ha Cocos fire, 6 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,149 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 7,449 ha Coribe fire, 6 October 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 10,929 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 1,731 ha Jaborandi fire, 4 October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 4,555 ha in total · 7 days
  58. 5,135 ha Cocos fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,110 ha in total · 7 days
  59. 3,783 ha Cocos fire, 3 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,765 ha in total · 7 days
  60. 3,332 ha Cocos fire, 1 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,421 ha in total · 6 days
  61. 12,101 ha Cocos fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,032 ha in total · 9 days
  62. 45,650 ha Cocos fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 45,467 ha in total · 11 days
  63. 2,008 ha Cocos fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,996 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).