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Wildfires in Fernando Falcão

Fernando Falcão, Brazil, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 35,634 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Wed 11 Very low 32° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 32° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 33° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 27° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 32° · 58 % · 28 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Fernando Falcão: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

35,634
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
12
fires
5,120
km²

How many times has Fernando Falcão burned?

Fernando Falcão has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Mirador fire, 18 August 2025, with 1,591 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,634 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,213 hectares, 6.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
12
fires
7
years with fire
35,634
cumulative ha
32,213
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 Fernando Falcão

  1. 1,591 ha Mirador fire, 18 August 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 726 ha Fernando Falcão fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,132 ha Fernando Falcão fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,111 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 340 ha Mirador fire, July 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,188 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,477 ha Fernando Falcão fire, July 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,192 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3,589 ha Fernando Falcão fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,567 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 5,248 ha Fernando Falcão fire, August 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,214 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 6,932 ha Fernando Falcão fire, October 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,149 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 250 ha Grajaú fire, 17 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,793 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 156 ha Mirador fire, 16 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 16,272 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 6,914 ha Fernando Falcão fire, September 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 10,476 ha in total · 26 days
  12. 5,279 ha Fernando Falcão fire, August 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,244 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).

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