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Wildfires in Tocantins

Tocantins, Brazil: 1,300 fires with a page have entered 125 of its 139 municipalities since 2016, burning 9,727,238 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lagoa da Confusão in 19 August 2024, with 119,460 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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
9,727,238ha
Since 2016
Of the region
35%
280,739 km²
fires
1,300
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
125
of 139
Largest fire
119,460ha
Lagoa da Confusão · 19 August 2024
Inhabitants
1,324,259
7,345.4 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 Moderate 36° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 38° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 39° · 33 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 63 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 71 % · 50 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. Lagoa da Confusão 15,288 inhabitants 1,241,703 ha · 1.2×
  2. Paranã 10,542 inhabitants 906,919 ha · 80 %
  3. Formoso do Araguaia 845,440 ha · 63 %
  4. Pium 7,128 inhabitants 685,074 ha · 68 %
  5. Arraias 10,287 inhabitants 468,552 ha · 80 %
  6. Rio Sono 4,841 inhabitants 370,968 ha · 58 %
  7. Goiatins 12,433 inhabitants 307,418 ha · 48 %
  8. Lizarda 2,999 inhabitants 296,043 ha · 51 %
  9. Mateiros 2,748 inhabitants 290,450 ha · 30 %
  10. Almas 6,499 inhabitants 241,578 ha · 60 %
  11. Natividade 8,754 inhabitants 241,302 ha · 74 %
  12. Monte do Carmo 5,694 inhabitants 234,645 ha · 65 %

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
20261661,100,632 São Salvador do Tocantins 31,908 ha
20251711,250,422 São Salvador do Tocantins 109,829 ha
20241611,507,381 Lagoa da Confusão 119,460 ha
202334272,274 Lagoa da Confusão 54,994 ha
202295558,784 Almas 23,725 ha
202165537,635 Paranã 83,390 ha
2020121891,576 Rio Sono 72,782 ha
20191241,160,023 Lagoa da Confusão 96,924 ha
201832177,533 Conceição do Tocantins 20,276 ha
20172001,416,067 Pium 75,022 ha
2016131854,911 Lagoa da Confusão 38,099 ha

All fires in Tocantins · 1300

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).