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Wildfires in Rio de Contas

Rio de Contas, Brazil, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 8,300 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 14 Very low 31° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 29° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 62 % · 42 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 31° · 70 % · 31 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 Rio de Contas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,300
hectares burned
7.4 %
of its area
5
fires
1,122
km²

How many times has Rio de Contas burned?

Rio de Contas has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Rio de Contas fire, August 2024, with 2,608 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,300 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,851 hectares, 6.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
5
years with fire
8,300
cumulative ha
6,851
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 Rio de Contas

  1. 2,608 ha Rio de Contas fire, August 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,922 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,081 ha Abaíra fire, November 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 3,870 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 151 ha Érico Cardoso fire, October 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 5,147 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,452 ha Rio de Contas fire, October 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,062 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 3,008 ha Rio de Contas fire, September 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,212 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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