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🇧🇷 Brazil: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 2 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 1 October at 11:49.

Busiest day: 1 October, with 2 ignitions detected.

2
archived events
2
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
117
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 2 detection events in Brazil, with 2 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 117 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Few fires this month: informative page, handle the figures with care.

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 2

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Bonfim1 Oct, 06:211117
Mato Verde1 Oct, 04:233365

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Brazil, October 2026: 2 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-01.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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