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Wildfires in João Costa

João Costa, Brazil, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 19,680 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 13 Moderate 36° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 33° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 34° · 40 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 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 João Costa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,680
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
4
fires
1,812
km²

How many times has João Costa burned?

João Costa has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: João Costa fire, October 2021, with 863 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
19,680
cumulative ha
3 Oct 2021
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 João Costa

  1. 863 ha João Costa fire, October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,094 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,592 ha São João do Piauí fire, October 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 7,467 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 15,142 ha João Costa fire, August 2020 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 16,639 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 2,082 ha João Costa fire, September 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,979 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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