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Wildfires in Fortuna

Fortuna, Brazil, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,076 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 29).

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 37° · 29 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 37° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 37° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 37° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 35° · 43 % · 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

20,076
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
11
fires
699
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Fortuna

  1. 327 ha Buriti Bravo fire, September 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 10,310 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 179 ha Buriti Bravo fire, September 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 5,989 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,535 ha Jatobá fire, September 2019 6.5% of the municipality · 10,051 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 19 ha Buriti Bravo fire, September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,544 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,213 ha Jatobá fire, September 2018 3.2% of the municipality · 5,734 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,582 ha Buriti Bravo fire, 5 September 2017 3.7% of the municipality · 20,019 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 1,601 ha Governador Luiz Rocha fire, October 2016 2.3% of the municipality · 3,299 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,253 ha Parnarama fire, 11 October 2016 4.6% of the municipality · 4,815 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,438 ha Fortuna fire, October 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,534 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 144 ha Buriti Bravo fire, 3 September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 8,830 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 2,785 ha Jatobá fire, 26 August 2016 4.0% of the municipality · 5,529 ha in total · 13 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).