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Wildfires in Palmas

Palmas, Brazil, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,281 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 29° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 73 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 68 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 32° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 32° · 55 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Palmas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

47,281
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
14
fires
2,241
km²

How many times has Palmas burned?

Palmas has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Palmas fire, October 2025, with 3,415 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,281 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,294 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
14
fires
7
years with fire
47,281
cumulative ha
31,294
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 Palmas

  1. 3,415 ha Palmas fire, October 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,412 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 7,434 ha Palmas fire, September 2025 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 7,435 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 17 ha Aparecida do Rio Negro fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,027 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 443 ha Porto Nacional fire, 27 September 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 3,019 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 3,644 ha Palmas fire, September 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,619 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 3,103 ha Palmas fire, 28 August 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,083 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 3,070 ha Palmas fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,256 ha Monte do Carmo fire, 2 September 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 18,846 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 5,800 ha Palmas fire, August 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,761 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 3,203 ha Palmas fire, September 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,639 ha Palmas fire, 17 September 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,621 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 3,984 ha Palmas fire, 3 September 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,958 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 5,247 ha Palmas fire, August 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 20,567 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 3,027 ha Palmas fire, August 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,006 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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