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Wildfires in Ceará

Ceará, Brazil: 22 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 188 municipalities since 2016, burning 117,056 hectares inside the region. The largest was Icó in September 2019, with 12,783 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).

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
117,056ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.8%
149,074 km²
fires
22
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
20
of 188
Largest fire
12,783ha
Icó · September 2019
Inhabitants
6,078,879
19.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Extreme 38° · 22 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 21 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 29 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 22 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 22 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 23 % · 52 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 38° · 23 % · 54 km/h

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. Icó 62,642 inhabitants 40,051 ha · 21 %
  2. Poranga 12,065 inhabitants 22,841 ha · 17 %
  3. Quiterianópolis 20,213 inhabitants 10,167 ha · 9.7 %
  4. Aurora 23,714 inhabitants 8,035 ha · 9.0 %
  5. Ipueiras 36,798 inhabitants 7,153 ha · 4.8 %
  6. Cariús 17,015 inhabitants 6,106 ha · 5.9 %
  7. Aracati 75,113 inhabitants 5,780 ha · 4.7 %
  8. Cariré 17,632 inhabitants 3,350 ha · 4.4 %
  9. Barbalha 75,033 inhabitants 3,024 ha · 4.9 %
  10. Ibiapina 23,965 inhabitants 2,686 ha · 6.4 %
  11. Forquilha 203,023 inhabitants 2,295 ha · 4.0 %
  12. Sobral 2,214 ha · 1.1 %

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
2025730,959 Quiterianópolis 6,354 ha
2023315,247 Icó 8,401 ha
2021321,770 Poranga 10,889 ha
2020318,816 Poranga 7,207 ha
2019630,264 Icó 12,783 ha

All fires in Ceará · 22

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).