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Wildfires in Picos

Picos, Brazil, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,161 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).

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 Extreme 37° · 25 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 20 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 24 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 25 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 38° · 25 % · 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

9,161
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
6
fires
581
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Picos

  1. 1,373 ha Aroeiras do Itaim fire, October 2019 2.4% of the municipality · 5,119 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 4,597 ha Picos fire, September 2019 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 6,514 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 309 ha Picos fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,752 ha in total · 30 days
  4. 318 ha Santana do Piauí fire, October 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,527 ha Santana do Piauí fire, September 2016 2.6% of the municipality · 3,593 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,038 ha Aroeiras do Itaim fire, August 2016 1.8% of the municipality · 3,824 ha in total · 8 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).