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Wildfires in Janaúba

Janaúba, Brazil, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 8,763 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 7 High 38° · 24 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Moderate 38° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 58 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 56 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Low 30° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 55 % · 35 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 Janaúba: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,763
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
2
fires
2,194
km²

How many times has Janaúba burned?

Janaúba has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Janaúba fire, September 2025, with 4,276 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,763 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,539 hectares, 2.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
8,763
cumulative ha
5,539
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 Janaúba

  1. 8,917 ha Janaúba fire, October 2026 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 5,411 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 4,276 ha Janaúba fire, September 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,248 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,486 ha Janaúba fire, September 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,456 ha in total · 21 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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