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Wildfires in Placas

Placas, Brazil, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 49,121 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sun 25 High 37° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 34° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 38° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 37° · 37 % · 33 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 36° · 41 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 36° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 38° · 26 % · 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

49,121
hectares burned
6.8 %
of its area
12
fires
7,221
km²

How many times has Placas burned?

Placas has burned 12 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Placas fire, October 2026, with 5,856 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,121 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,075 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
12
fires
3
years with fire
49,121
cumulative ha
40,075
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 Placas

  1. 5,856 ha Placas fire, October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,820 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 4,256 ha Uruará fire, 6 October 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 11,171 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 777 ha Uruará fire, 2 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,478 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 16 ha Uruará fire, 1 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,646 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 16,037 ha Placas fire, September 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 16,110 ha in total · 27 days
  6. 3,716 ha Mojuí dos Campos fire, 4 November 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 3,875 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 3,811 ha Placas fire, November 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,787 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 882 ha Mojuí dos Campos fire, 27 October 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,223 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 3,315 ha Placas fire, 4 October 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,294 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 3,644 ha Placas fire, 2 October 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,628 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 3,595 ha Placas fire, September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,957 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 3,216 ha Placas fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,196 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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