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Wildfires in Roraima

Roraima, Brazil: 120 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 15 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,095,976 hectares inside the region. The largest was Iracema in 20 February 2019, with 199,738 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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
1,095,976ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.9%
224,154 km²
fires
120
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 15
Largest fire
199,738ha
Iracema · 20 February 2019
Inhabitants
594,037
1,845.0 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 Low 34° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 35° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 35° · 45 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 35° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 61 % · 33 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. Mucajaí 18,095 inhabitants 318,302 ha · 26 %
  2. Caracaraí 297,974 ha · 6.2 %
  3. Iracema 206,999 ha · 15 %
  4. Amajari 13,927 inhabitants 61,045 ha · 2.1 %
  5. Cantá 18,682 inhabitants 49,431 ha · 6.4 %
  6. Rorainópolis 20,957 inhabitants 44,747 ha · 1.3 %
  7. Alto Alegre 21,096 inhabitants 42,793 ha · 1.7 %
  8. Boa Vista 413,486 inhabitants 37,407 ha · 6.5 %
  9. Bonfim 13,923 inhabitants 21,608 ha · 2.7 %
  10. Pacaraima 19,305 inhabitants 8,758 ha · 1.1 %
  11. Caroebe 10,656 inhabitants 3,596 ha · 0.3 %
  12. Normandia 13,986 inhabitants 3,315 ha · 0.5 %

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
2026943,676 Bonfim 6,367 ha
202440341,936 Mucajaí 44,897 ha
2023214,474 Caracaraí 11,429 ha
202213,561 Boa Vista 3,561 ha
202016,723 Bonfim 6,723 ha
201927374,410 Iracema 199,738 ha
2018324,726 Caracaraí 17,098 ha
201637286,470 Iracema 43,449 ha

All fires in Roraima · 120

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).