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Wildfires in Piracuruca

Piracuruca, Brazil, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,726 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 53).

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 31 Extreme 40° · 17 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Extreme 40° · 23 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Extreme 39° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 20 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 41° · 17 % · 38 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Extreme 40° · 19 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Extreme 40° · 18 % · 44 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

18,726
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
6
fires
2,385
km²

How many times has Piracuruca burned?

Piracuruca has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Piracuruca fire, October 2026, with 3,608 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,726 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,105 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
18,726
cumulative ha
18,105
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 Piracuruca

  1. 3,608 ha Piracuruca fire, October 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,584 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 6,946 ha Piracuruca fire, September 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,899 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 711 ha São João da Fronteira fire, September 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 4,956 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 945 ha São João da Fronteira fire, October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 3,889 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 4,735 ha Piracuruca fire, 12 October 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,704 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,782 ha Piracuruca fire, 1 October 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,362 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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