Wildfires in Itinga do Maranhão
Itinga do Maranhão, Brazil, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,561 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% 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- Thu 22 High 34° · 42 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 23 High 35° · 39 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 24 High 36° · 39 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 High 35° · 39 % · 37 km/h
- Mon 26 High 35° · 38 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 27 High 36° · 38 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 25 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
- 10,561
- hectares burned
- 2.9 %
- of its area
- 3
- fires
- 3,605
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Itinga do Maranhão
- 3,179 ha Itinga do Maranhão fire, December 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 8 days
- 3,673 ha Itinga do Maranhão fire, December 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,650 ha in total · 4 days
- 3,709 ha Itinga do Maranhão fire, September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,699 ha in total · 19 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).