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Wildfires in Paracatu

Paracatu, Brazil, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 58,421 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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 24 Low 34° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 43 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 33 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

58,421
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
11
fires
8,279
km²

How many times has Paracatu burned?

Paracatu has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Paracatu fire, 29 September 2025, with 3,501 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 58,421 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 50,546 hectares, 6.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
11
fires
6
years with fire
58,421
cumulative ha
50,546
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 Paracatu

  1. 3,501 ha Paracatu fire, 29 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,476 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 12,207 ha Paracatu fire, 5 September 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 12,127 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,238 ha Paracatu fire, October 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,096 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 4,305 ha Paracatu fire, September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,279 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,725 ha Guarda-Mor fire, September 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 6,567 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 3,092 ha Paracatu fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,073 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 10,557 ha Paracatu fire, 12 September 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 10,486 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 10,866 ha Paracatu fire, 12 September 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 13,318 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 18 ha João Pinheiro fire, 29 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,358 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 3,070 ha Paracatu fire, 20 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,051 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,843 ha Paracatu fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,177 ha in total · 5 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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