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Wildfires in Matões

Matões, Brazil, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,117 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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 Very high 37° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 38° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 37° · 32 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 37° · 30 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 36 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 28 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

49,117
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
10
fires
2,123
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Matões

  1. 4,091 ha Matões fire, October 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,065 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 209 ha Timon fire, 25 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,786 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 4,305 ha Matões fire, September 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,913 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,465 ha Matões fire, May 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 3,648 ha Matões fire, October 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,624 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 8,817 ha Parnarama fire, 24 September 2017 4.2% of the municipality · 8,787 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 8,184 ha Matões fire, 11 October 2016 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 9,590 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 2,064 ha Parnarama fire, 11 October 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 3,380 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 6,242 ha Matões fire, 9 October 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 7,251 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 8,091 ha Matões fire, 1 October 2016 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 8,038 ha in total · 6 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).