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Wildfires in Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais, Brazil: 242 fires with a page have entered 154 of its 861 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,241,197 hectares inside the region. The largest was Jaboticatubas in September 2020, with 25,726 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 page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,241,197ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.1%
593,512 km²
fires
242
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
154
of 861
Largest fire
25,726ha
Jaboticatubas · September 2020
Inhabitants
20,333,638
61.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 26° · 74 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 29° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 30° · 72 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 30° · 64 % · 28 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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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. Arinos 17,272 inhabitants 64,394 ha · 12 %
  2. Paracatu 94,023 inhabitants 58,421 ha · 7.1 %
  3. Unaí 86,619 inhabitants 53,366 ha · 6.3 %
  4. Buritis 24,030 inhabitants 42,956 ha · 8.2 %
  5. Lassance 7,124 inhabitants 41,886 ha · 13 %
  6. São Roque de Minas 7,129 inhabitants 39,760 ha · 19 %
  7. Buritizeiro 23,910 inhabitants 38,597 ha · 5.3 %
  8. João Pinheiro 46,801 inhabitants 37,982 ha · 3.5 %
  9. Formoso 7,949 inhabitants 37,964 ha · 10 %
  10. São Gonçalo do Abaeté 7,375 inhabitants 36,605 ha · 14 %
  11. Uberaba 337,836 inhabitants 36,058 ha · 7.9 %
  12. Bonito de Minas 65,150 inhabitants 35,524 ha · 9.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (3,000 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
20261350,800 Formoso 7,369 ha
202524147,234 Buritis 21,407 ha
202435139,690 Mariana 8,154 ha
202326,575 Lassance 3,427 ha
20221150,111 Buenópolis 8,433 ha
202161338,568 Arinos 20,965 ha
202040245,098 Jaboticatubas 25,726 ha
201928113,657 São Gonçalo do Abaeté 10,461 ha
2018525,390 Sacramento 10,114 ha
20171456,529 Uberaba 7,330 ha
2016967,545 São Roque de Minas 20,296 ha

All fires in Minas Gerais · 243

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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