Wildfires in Acre
Acre, Brazil: 5 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 22 municipalities since 2016, burning 17,235 hectares inside the region. The largest was Xapuri in September 2016, with 4,558 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 17,235ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 158,613 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 22
- Largest fire
- 4,558ha
- Xapuri · September 2016
- Inhabitants
- 788,675
- 21.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 30° · 59 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 34° · 45 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 35° · 46 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 31° · 62 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 32° · 69 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 73 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 26° · 95 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 61 % · 15 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Rio Branco 364,756 inhabitants 7,839 ha · 0.9 %
- Porto Acre 16,693 inhabitants 4,789 ha · 1.8 %
- Xapuri 18,243 inhabitants 4,558 ha · 0.8 %
- Sena Madureira 11,996 inhabitants 49 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Rio Branco7,839 ha
- 2×Porto Acre4,789 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,558 haXapuriSeptember 2016 · 7 days
- 4,170 haRio BrancoJuly 2019 · 8 days
- 3,719 haRio BrancoSeptember 2022 · 11 days
- 2,473 haPorto AcreJuly 2016 · 11 days of 4,197 ha in total
- 2,316 haPorto AcreSeptember 2021 · 11 days of 3,551 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 3,719 | Rio Branco 3,719 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 2,316 | Porto Acre 2,316 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 4,170 | Rio Branco 4,170 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 7,031 | Xapuri 4,558 ha |
All fires in Acre · 5
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).