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Wildfires in Santana do Riacho

Santana do Riacho, Brazil, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 10,286 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 4 Very low 32° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 34° · 39 % · 46 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 33° · 41 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 50 % · 41 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 22° · 70 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 74 % · 43 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 23° · 63 % · 52 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 Santana do Riacho: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,286
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
3
fires
681
km²

How many times has Santana do Riacho burned?

Santana do Riacho has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Santana do Riacho fire, 18 August 2024, with 3,191 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
10,286
cumulative ha
18 Aug 2024
most recent

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 Santana do Riacho

  1. 3,191 ha Santana do Riacho fire, 18 August 2024 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,512 ha Santana do Riacho fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,583 ha Jaboticatubas fire, September 2020 5.3% of the municipality · 25,592 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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