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Wildfires in Curimatá

Curimatá, Brazil, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 49,021 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 34° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 32° · 47 % · 44 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 33° · 43 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 37° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 38° · 28 % · 40 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

49,021
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
12
fires
2,360
km²

How many times has Curimatá burned?

Curimatá has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Curimatá fire, October 2024, with 5,120 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,021 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 42,781 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
5
years with fire
49,021
cumulative ha
42,781
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 Curimatá

  1. 5,120 ha Curimatá fire, October 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,087 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,997 ha Curimatá fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 15,649 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,080 ha Avelino Lopes fire, October 2022 1.3% of the municipality · 9,588 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 6,840 ha Curimatá fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,798 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 6,921 ha Curimatá fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,880 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 135 ha Avelino Lopes fire, August 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 11,208 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 10,753 ha Avelino Lopes fire, September 2021 4.6% of the municipality · 11,295 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 6,123 ha Morro Cabeça no Tempo fire, September 2021 2.6% of the municipality · 120,932 ha in total · 39 days
  9. 3,083 ha Redenção do Gurguéia fire, October 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 5,329 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 916 ha Júlio Borges fire, August 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 6,616 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 2,051 ha Curimatá fire, July 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,373 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 2 ha Morro Cabeça no Tempo fire, October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,062 ha in total · 12 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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