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Wildfires in Socorro do Piauí

Socorro do Piauí, Brazil, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 35,928 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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 High 38° · 26 % · 45 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very high 39° · 21 % · 43 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very high 40° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very high 40° · 21 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very high 39° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Moderate 38° · 31 % · 40 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 38 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 35° · 37 % · 44 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 Socorro do Piauí: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

35,928
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
12
fires
766
km²

How many times has Socorro do Piauí burned?

Socorro do Piauí has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: São José do Peixe fire, September 2025, with 8,488 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,928 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,049 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
12
fires
7
years with fire
35,928
cumulative ha
21,049
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 Socorro do Piauí

  1. 8,488 ha São José do Peixe fire, September 2025 11% of the municipality · 24,167 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 2,987 ha Pedro Laurentino fire, September 2024 3.9% of the municipality · 10,166 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,781 ha São Miguel do Fidalgo fire, October 2023 2.3% of the municipality · 7,663 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 6,411 ha São José do Peixe fire, 1 October 2022 8.4% of the municipality · 13,017 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 1,882 ha Ribeira do Piauí fire, August 2021 2.5% of the municipality · 6,324 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 241 ha Pedro Laurentino fire, August 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 4,518 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 4,249 ha Socorro do Piauí fire, October 2020 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 4,220 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 412 ha Paes Landim fire, September 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 4,422 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 1,565 ha São Miguel do Fidalgo fire, 6 September 2020 2.0% of the municipality · 12,524 ha in total · 29 days
  10. 3,896 ha Ribeira do Piauí fire, October 2019 5.1% of the municipality · 6,382 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 594 ha Ribeira do Piauí fire, September 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 4,809 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,422 ha Socorro do Piauí fire, September 2019 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 3,607 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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