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Wildfires in Pitangui

Pitangui, Brazil, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,046 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 Very low 32° · 40 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 35 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 28° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 27° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 66 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 76 % · 32 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

4,046
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
2
fires
573
km²

How many times has Pitangui burned?

Pitangui has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Pequi fire, August 2021, with 1,940 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,046 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,473 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,046
cumulative ha
2,473
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 Pitangui

  1. 1,940 ha Pequi fire, August 2021 3.4% of the municipality · 4,929 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,106 ha Maravilhas fire, October 2017 3.7% of the municipality · 5,230 ha in total · 9 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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