🇧🇷 Brazil: wildfires in August 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Brazil, August 2026: 3401 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 05:42.

Busiest day: 10 August, with 223 ignitions detected. Longest fire: Brejinho, tracked for 24 h.

"In August 2026, kanari archived 3401 detection events in Brazil, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 2387 MW."