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Wildfires in Ponte Alta do Tocantins

Ponte Alta do Tocantins, Brazil, has had 41 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 173,327 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 58 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 27° · 79 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 73 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 29° · 75 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 67 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 30° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 33° · 61 % · 30 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ponte Alta do Tocantins: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

173,327
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
41
fires
6,521
km²

How many times has Ponte Alta do Tocantins burned?

Ponte Alta do Tocantins has burned 41 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, May 2026, with 9,956 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 173,327 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 141,546 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11. 1× 26
41
fires
10
years with fire
173,327
cumulative ha
141,546
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 Ponte Alta do Tocantins

  1. 16,227 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, October 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 15,862 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 9,956 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, May 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 12,804 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,097 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,076 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 369 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,599 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1 ha Monte do Carmo fire, 23 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,037 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 4,767 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 3 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,734 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 3,075 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 30 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,055 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 5,954 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,921 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 9,868 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 9,801 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 10,193 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, August 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 10,131 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 4,230 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,210 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 3,170 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,952 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 8 September 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,928 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,616 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 8 September 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,592 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 3,686 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,898 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 4,442 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, September 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,413 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,386 ha Mateiros fire, 6 September 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 3,878 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 3,390 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 7 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,368 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 3,678 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 4 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,654 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 5,459 ha Almas fire, August 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 23,570 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 3,023 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 4,221 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 19 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,192 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 1,068 ha Lagoa do Tocantins fire, September 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 6,119 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 3,648 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 15 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,623 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 7,334 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, September 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,293 ha in total · 16 days
  26. 3,852 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,828 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 3,336 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 17 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,316 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 4,463 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,443 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 5,651 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,986 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 0 ha Almas fire, 4 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,401 ha in total · 19 days
  31. 2,984 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 6 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,488 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 4,300 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 6 August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,272 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 4,029 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 6 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,002 ha in total · 16 days
  34. 5,816 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 5 September 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,783 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 4,009 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 1 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,984 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 3,159 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 14 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,138 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 4,638 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 9 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,859 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 9,828 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 23 August 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 10,097 ha in total · 15 days
  39. 3,466 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 14 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,447 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 4,493 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,612 ha in total · 8 days
  41. 4,666 ha Ponte Alta do Tocantins fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,721 ha in total · 20 days
  42. 54 ha Almas fire, July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,607 ha in total · 7 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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