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Wildfires in Bahia

Bahia, Brazil: 534 fires with a page have entered 58 of its 417 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,956,496 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wanderley in September 2021, with 218,664 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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
3,956,496ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.9%
570,786 km²
fires
534
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
58
of 417
Largest fire
218,664ha
Wanderley · September 2021
Inhabitants
13,695,762
288.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 73 % · 40 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 72 % · 42 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 67 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 29° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 28° · 49 % · 30 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Barra 51,092 inhabitants 593,387 ha · 52 %
  2. Formosa do Rio Preto 25,899 inhabitants 575,342 ha · 37 %
  3. Cocos 19,151 inhabitants 348,159 ha · 34 %
  4. Pilão Arcado 35,357 inhabitants 342,417 ha · 29 %
  5. Riachão das Neves 21,642 inhabitants 248,268 ha · 41 %
  6. Mansidão 13,919 inhabitants 204,702 ha · 65 %
  7. São Desidério 32,828 inhabitants 202,451 ha · 13 %
  8. Jaborandi 9,275 inhabitants 200,226 ha · 20 %
  9. Cotegipe 13,063 inhabitants 198,305 ha · 46 %
  10. Santa Rita de Cássia 27,390 inhabitants 156,447 ha · 26 %
  11. Barreiras 159,734 inhabitants 150,204 ha · 19 %
  12. Correntina 32,457 inhabitants 101,523 ha · 8.8 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202677608,246 Barra 72,647 ha
202576571,782 Barra 65,489 ha
202451248,786 Formosa do Rio Preto 12,992 ha
202346325,195 Pilão Arcado 40,703 ha
202253314,997 Barra 35,452 ha
20211011,002,272 Wanderley 218,664 ha
202034320,117 Pilão Arcado 57,472 ha
201929140,772 Barra 10,161 ha
20181699,162 Mansidão 21,973 ha
201734213,360 Pilão Arcado 35,531 ha
201618115,014 Barra 33,842 ha

All fires in Bahia · 535

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).

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