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Wildfires in Sobral

Sobral, Brazil, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 2,214 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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 39° · 21 % · 55 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 29 % · 48 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 32 % · 43 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Extreme 39° · 22 % · 47 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 39° · 24 % · 50 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 28 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 38° · 30 % · 43 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

2,214
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
2
fires
2,083
km²

How many times has Sobral burned?

Sobral has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Cariré fire, September 2025, with 1,612 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
2,214
cumulative ha
22 Sept 2025
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 Sobral

  1. 1,612 ha Cariré fire, September 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 4,936 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 602 ha Forquilha fire, September 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 19 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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