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BR · Brazil · Minas Gerais · 86,619 inhabitants

Wildfires in Unaí

Unaí, Brazil, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,366 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 56 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 56 % · 33 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

53,366
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
10
fires
8,495
km²

How many times has Unaí burned?

Unaí has burned 10 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Unaí fire, October 2025, with 3,880 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 53,366 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,451 hectares, 3.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
7
years with fire
53,366
cumulative ha
28,451
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 Unaí

  1. 3,880 ha Unaí fire, October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,860 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 8,777 ha Unaí fire, September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,728 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,642 ha Unaí fire, September 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,606 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 6,295 ha Unaí fire, September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,257 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 4,262 ha Unaí fire, 18 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,238 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 4,082 ha Unaí fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,056 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 3,883 ha Unaí fire, September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,859 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,533 ha Unaí fire, September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,511 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 5,753 ha Unaí fire, 13 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,724 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 7,259 ha Unaí fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,218 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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