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Wildfires in Sambaíba

Sambaíba, Brazil, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 63,326 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 50 % · 36 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 35° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 48 % · 40 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 34° · 44 % · 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

63,326
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
24
fires
2,496
km²

How many times has Sambaíba burned?

Sambaíba has burned 24 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ribeiro Gonçalves fire, October 2026, with 69 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 63,326 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 45,003 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
24
fires
9
years with fire
63,326
cumulative ha
45,003
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 Sambaíba

  1. 69 ha Ribeiro Gonçalves fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,262 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,231 ha Sambaíba fire, September 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 358 ha Loreto fire, 28 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 5,486 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 4,652 ha Sambaíba fire, September 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,795 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,757 ha Sambaíba fire, October 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,734 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 0 ha Tasso Fragoso fire, 14 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,456 ha Balsas fire, 26 September 2022 1.4% of the municipality · 3,702 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 892 ha Balsas fire, 12 September 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 3,486 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 19 ha Balsas fire, 5 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,114 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 3,597 ha Sambaíba fire, August 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 967 ha Loreto fire, 26 August 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 4,533 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,142 ha Sambaíba fire, 25 August 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,350 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 4,669 ha Sambaíba fire, 23 August 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,019 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 0 ha Loreto fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,742 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 3,832 ha Sambaíba fire, October 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,907 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 4 ha Balsas fire, 6 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,044 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,015 ha Sambaíba fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,231 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 3,056 ha Sambaíba fire, September 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,034 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 5,733 ha Tasso Fragoso fire, 18 October 2017 2.3% of the municipality · 11,044 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 5,827 ha Sambaíba fire, September 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 8,657 ha in total · 15 days
  21. 1,734 ha Loreto fire, 7 September 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 3,310 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 3,920 ha Sambaíba fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,499 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 3,079 ha Sambaíba fire, 2 September 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,629 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 6,318 ha Sambaíba fire, August 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 6,811 ha in total · 10 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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