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Wildfires in Lagoa do Mato

Lagoa do Mato, Brazil, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 44,839 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Mon 2 Low 36° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 37° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  4. Thu 5 High 38° · 24 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 6 High 38° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 7 High 39° · 23 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 8 High 37° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 36° · 36 % · 26 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

44,839
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
10
fires
1,523
km²

How many times has Lagoa do Mato burned?

Lagoa do Mato has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: São Francisco do Maranhão fire, 24 September 2025, with 610 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 44,839 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 38,933 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
44,839
cumulative ha
38,933
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 Lagoa do Mato

  1. 610 ha São Francisco do Maranhão fire, 24 September 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 4,071 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 3,721 ha Lagoa do Mato fire, September 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,696 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 27,309 ha Barão de Grajaú fire, 26 August 2025 18% of the municipality · 64,036 ha in total · 43 days
  4. 3,100 ha Lagoa do Mato fire, September 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 69 ha Sucupira do Riachão fire, August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,328 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 2,435 ha Lagoa do Mato fire, 18 August 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 8,220 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 4,355 ha Lagoa do Mato fire, 18 August 2018 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,334 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 622 ha Buriti Bravo fire, 22 September 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 7,724 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 683 ha Lagoa do Mato fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,186 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 1,935 ha Lagoa do Mato fire, August 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 16 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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