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Wildfires in Piaui

Piaui, Brazil: 835 fires with a page have entered 135 of its 222 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,454,472 hectares inside the region. The largest was Morro Cabeça no Tempo in September 2021, with 82,696 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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
5,454,472ha
Since 2016
Of the region
21%
253,821 km²
fires
835
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
135
of 222
Largest fire
82,696ha
Morro Cabeça no Tempo · September 2021
Inhabitants
3,209,990
1,699.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very high 40° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 30 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 38° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 37° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 37° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 37° · 34 % · 27 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Santa Filomena 6,087 inhabitants 297,439 ha · 56 %
  2. Uruçuí 25,203 inhabitants 262,134 ha · 31 %
  3. Baixa Grande do Ribeiro 13,272 inhabitants 240,650 ha · 31 %
  4. Floriano 62,036 inhabitants 209,616 ha · 61 %
  5. Canto do Buriti 19,365 inhabitants 200,089 ha · 46 %
  6. Pimenteiras 11,341 inhabitants 180,643 ha · 39 %
  7. Morro Cabeça no Tempo 4,377 inhabitants 170,719 ha · 77 %
  8. Riacho Frio 4,165 inhabitants 170,704 ha · 76 %
  9. Itaueira 10,323 inhabitants 169,847 ha · 66 %
  10. São José do Peixe 3,297 inhabitants 168,102 ha · 1.3×
  11. Parnaguá 10,103 inhabitants 159,596 ha · 46 %
  12. Alvorada do Gurguéia 5,322 inhabitants 157,930 ha · 74 %

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
202695568,537 Riacho Frio 34,516 ha
2025134825,463 Pimenteiras 35,199 ha
202457308,037 Canto do Buriti 21,135 ha
202373474,722 Rio Grande do Piauí 52,334 ha
202267457,958 Parnaguá 32,809 ha
2021114951,437 Morro Cabeça no Tempo 82,696 ha
202066486,368 Brejo do Piauí 30,681 ha
201978479,281 Pimenteiras 36,936 ha
201870467,907 Nazaré do Piauí 36,458 ha
201741208,776 Palmeirais 12,909 ha
201640225,986 Alvorada do Gurguéia 19,066 ha

All fires in Piaui · 835

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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