Wildfires in Rio Granda do Norte
Rio Granda do Norte, Brazil: 4 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 165 municipalities since 2016, burning 16,511 hectares inside the region. The largest was Felipe Guerra in October 2019, with 4,810 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).
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
- 16,511ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 53,146 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 165
- Largest fire
- 4,810ha
- Felipe Guerra · October 2019
- Inhabitants
- 3,199,360
- 5.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 7 Extreme 38° · 25 % · 39 km/h
- Sun 8 Extreme 36° · 34 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 9 Extreme 38° · 24 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 10 Very high 37° · 32 % · 39 km/h
- Wed 11 Very high 36° · 39 % · 41 km/h
- Thu 12 Very high 36° · 35 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 13 Extreme 36° · 30 % · 41 km/h
- Sat 14 Very high 36° · 28 % · 41 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Apodi 35,897 inhabitants 6,781 ha · 4.2 %
- Felipe Guerra 6,259 inhabitants 4,423 ha · 16 %
- Açu 56,496 inhabitants 3,223 ha · 2.5 %
- Governador Dix-Sept Rosado 11,932 inhabitants 2,083 ha · 1.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (3,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Apodi6,781 ha
- 2×Governador Dix-Sept Rosado2,083 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,810 haFelipe GuerraOctober 2019 · 10 days
- 4,648 haApodiDecember 2020 · 9 days
- 3,830 haGovernador Dix-Sept RosadoOctober 2024 · 4 days
- 3,223 haAçuSeptember 2025 · 11 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 3,223 | Açu 3,223 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 3,830 | Governador Dix-Sept Rosado 3,830 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 4,648 | Apodi 4,648 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 4,810 | Felipe Guerra 4,810 ha |
All fires in Rio Granda do Norte · 4
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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