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BR · Brazil · Minas Gerais · 74,821 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ouro Preto

Ouro Preto, Brazil, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,673 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 Very low 26° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 52 % · 39 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 59 % · 50 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 77 % · 49 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 19° · 62 % · 47 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

2,673
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
4
fires
1,252
km²

How many times has Ouro Preto burned?

Ouro Preto has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Ouro Preto fire, October 2024, with 591 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,673 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,207 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
2,673
cumulative ha
2,207
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 Ouro Preto

  1. 591 ha Ouro Preto fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,428 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 811 ha Mariana fire, September 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 8,116 ha in total · 31 days
  3. 731 ha Mariana fire, August 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 3,533 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 541 ha Moeda fire, September 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 4,781 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).

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