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Wildfires in Simplício Mendes

Simplício Mendes, Brazil, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,279 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

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 24 Extreme 40° · 20 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 23 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 39° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 38° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 31 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 38° · 25 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 24 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 38° · 22 % · 39 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

4,279
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
2
fires
1,370
km²

How many times has Simplício Mendes burned?

Simplício Mendes has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Campinas do Piauí fire, October 2020, with 4,228 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,279 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,766 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,279
cumulative ha
3,766
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 Simplício Mendes

  1. 4,228 ha Campinas do Piauí fire, October 2020 3.1% of the municipality · 26,234 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 51 ha Santo Inácio do Piauí fire, October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,631 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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