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Wildfires in Januária

Januária, Brazil, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 15,699 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sun 25 High 36° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 63 % · 36 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 65 % · 30 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

15,699
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
5
fires
6,702
km²

How many times has Januária burned?

Januária has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Januária fire, October 2025, with 4,551 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
15,699
cumulative ha
1 Oct 2025
most recent

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 Januária

  1. 4,551 ha Januária fire, October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,525 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1 ha Bonito de Minas fire, October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,954 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,938 ha Bonito de Minas fire, 16 September 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 4,482 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 9,058 ha Januária fire, September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 9,000 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 151 ha Cocos fire, 29 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 45,467 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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