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Wildfires in Taipas do Tocantins

Taipas do Tocantins, Brazil, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 45,650 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Mon 2 Low 36° · 34 % · 38 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 36° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 37° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 37° · 31 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 36° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 37° · 34 % · 59 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 34° · 48 % · 49 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 60 % · 31 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

45,650
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
12
fires
1,113
km²

How many times has Taipas do Tocantins burned?

Taipas do Tocantins has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Taipas do Tocantins fire, October 2026, with 4,156 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,650 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,840 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
45,650
cumulative ha
35,840
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 Taipas do Tocantins

  1. 4,156 ha Taipas do Tocantins fire, October 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 4,128 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 9,474 ha Taipas do Tocantins fire, September 2026 where it started 8.5% of the municipality · 9,416 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 70 ha Arraias fire, 16 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 10,958 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 3,168 ha Conceição do Tocantins fire, 7 August 2026 2.8% of the municipality · 21,448 ha in total · 30 days
  5. 232 ha Conceição do Tocantins fire, 15 October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,896 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 8,080 ha Taipas do Tocantins fire, September 2025 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 10,927 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 3,200 ha Conceição do Tocantins fire, September 2022 2.9% of the municipality · 4,247 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,393 ha Taipas do Tocantins fire, 14 August 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,844 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 9,355 ha Taipas do Tocantins fire, 13 August 2021 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 9,298 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 6,427 ha Taipas do Tocantins fire, October 2020 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 6,391 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2 ha Arraias fire, 21 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,154 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 93 ha Conceição do Tocantins fire, 21 August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 6,425 ha in total · 18 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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