Wildfires in Paraíba
Paraíba, Brazil: 9 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 225 municipalities since 2016, burning 34,796 hectares inside the region. The largest was Olho d'Água in October 2019, with 6,226 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 58).
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
- 34,796ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 57,638 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 16
- of 225
- Largest fire
- 6,226ha
- Olho d'Água · October 2019
- Inhabitants
- 4,026,604
- 8.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Very high 36° · 22 % · 43 km/h
- Sun 1 Extreme 36° · 23 % · 50 km/h
- Mon 2 Extreme 36° · 23 % · 46 km/h
- Tue 3 Extreme 36° · 21 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 4 Extreme 36° · 21 % · 46 km/h
- Thu 5 Extreme 36° · 20 % · 47 km/h
- Fri 6 Extreme 37° · 21 % · 44 km/h
- Sat 7 Extreme 37° · 22 % · 45 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Olho d'Água 6,060 inhabitants 12,394 ha · 21 %
- Paulista 11,834 inhabitants 4,056 ha · 7.0 %
- Aguiar 5,003 inhabitants 3,539 ha · 10 %
- Diamante 6,299 inhabitants 2,335 ha · 8.5 %
- Piancó 16,441 inhabitants 2,078 ha · 3.6 %
- Serra Negra do Norte 7,597 inhabitants 1,987 ha · 3.5 %
- Catingueira 4,491 inhabitants 1,720 ha · 3.2 %
- Santa Teresinha 4,402 inhabitants 1,689 ha · 4.7 %
- São José de Espinharas 4,083 inhabitants 1,129 ha · 1.5 %
- Cachoeira dos Índios 9,151 inhabitants 1,123 ha · 5.8 %
- Santana de Mangueira 5,010 inhabitants 980 ha · 2.4 %
- Pombal 32,473 inhabitants 668 ha · 0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Olho d'Água12,394 ha
- 2×Paulista4,056 ha
- 2×Catingueira1,720 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 6,226 haOlho d'ÁguaOctober 2019 · 32 days
- 5,351 haPaulistaOctober 2019 · 27 days
- 4,905 haOlho d'ÁguaOctober 2021 · 17 days
- 3,586 haPaulistaSeptember 2018 · 15 days
- 3,539 haAguiarNovember 2019 · 9 days
- 3,404 haCatingueiraSeptember 2022 · 30 days
- 3,347 haPiancóDecember 2019 · 19 days
- 3,315 haDiamanteOctober 2018 · 13 days
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 | 3,404 | Catingueira 3,404 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 4,905 | Olho d'Água 4,905 ha |
| 2019 | 5 | 19,586 | Olho d'Água 6,226 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 6,901 | Paulista 3,586 ha |
All fires in Paraíba · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,404 haCatingueiraSeptember 2022 · 30 days
- 4,905 haOlho d'ÁguaOctober 2021 · 17 days
- 3,347 haPiancóDecember 2019 · 19 days
- 3,539 haAguiarNovember 2019 · 9 days
- 5,351 haPaulistaOctober 2019 · 27 days
- 1,123 haCachoeira dos ÍndiosOctober 2019 · 10 days of 6,104 ha in total
- 6,226 haOlho d'ÁguaOctober 2019 · 32 days
- 3,315 haDiamanteOctober 2018 · 13 days
- 3,586 haPaulistaSeptember 2018 · 15 days
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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