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Wildfires in Loreto

Loreto, Brazil, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 101,401 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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 23 High 37° · 28 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 38° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 38° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 38° · 29 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 36° · 44 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 51 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 45 % · 38 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

101,401
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
32
fires
3,621
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Loreto

  1. 1 ha Ribeiro Gonçalves fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,262 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 6,630 ha Loreto fire, September 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,628 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,132 ha Loreto fire, August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 191 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 8,162 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 3,983 ha Loreto fire, October 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,957 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 5,132 ha Loreto fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,486 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 3,663 ha Loreto fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,637 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,048 ha Loreto fire, August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,026 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 43 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,494 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 10,131 ha Loreto fire, September 2024 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 10,062 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 5,483 ha Loreto fire, September 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,448 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 4,292 ha Loreto fire, 16 August 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,262 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,070 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, August 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 13,888 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 3,504 ha Loreto fire, 10 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,480 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,205 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, September 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 3,598 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 4,362 ha Loreto fire, September 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,334 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 4,575 ha Loreto fire, 30 August 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,543 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 2,997 ha Loreto fire, 27 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,582 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 3,594 ha Loreto fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,533 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 383 ha Sambaíba fire, 23 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 5,019 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 3,467 ha Loreto fire, 18 August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,443 ha in total · 19 days
  22. 3,767 ha Loreto fire, August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,742 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 3,161 ha Loreto fire, October 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,142 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 1,088 ha São Félix de Balsas fire, 18 August 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 4,330 ha in total · 21 days
  25. 4,503 ha Loreto fire, August 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,471 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 3,016 ha Loreto fire, August 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,071 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 3,260 ha Loreto fire, July 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,238 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 3,564 ha Loreto fire, 18 September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,541 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,597 ha Loreto fire, 7 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,310 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 4,411 ha Loreto fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,381 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 611 ha Sambaíba fire, 6 September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 4,499 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 539 ha Sambaíba fire, August 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 6,811 ha in total · 7 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).