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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: 5437 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 06:03.

Busiest day: 20 October, with 318 ignitions detected. Longest fire: Bonfim, tracked for 11 h. +50% compared with September 2026.

5437
archived events
0
still active
2
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
5261
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 5437 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: 5261 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 246022026-10-02: 172032026-10-03: 55042026-10-04: 80052026-10-05: 216062026-10-06: 129072026-10-07: 276082026-10-08: 178092026-10-09: 201102026-10-10: 257112026-10-11: 149122026-10-12: 159132026-10-13: 123142026-10-14: 213152026-10-15: 209162026-10-16: 181172026-10-17: 144182026-10-18: 149192026-10-19: 77202026-10-20: 318212026-10-21: 120222026-10-22: 154232026-10-23: 131242026-10-24: 279252026-10-25: 178262026-10-26: 188272026-10-27: 137282026-10-28: 213292026-10-29: 172302026-10-30: 194312026-10-31: 139

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Rosário do Sul4 Oct, 23:21115261
Cacequi4 Oct, 23:21205184
Brejo de Areia14 Oct, 16:301172344
Murici dos Portelas12 Oct, 15:30811733
Porto dos Gaúchos25 Oct, 17:10551644
São Luiz do Norte8 Oct, 14:36251424
Santa Filomena do Maranhão9 Oct, 20:351321400
Buritirama26 Oct, 21:25581273
Alenquer6 Oct, 16:34191184
Vila Santa Maria3 Oct, 14:20401168

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Brazil, October 2026: 5437 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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