🇧🇷 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.
"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."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosário do Sul | 4 Oct, 23:21 | 11 | 5261 |
| Cacequi | 4 Oct, 23:21 | 20 | 5184 |
| Brejo de Areia | 14 Oct, 16:30 | 117 | 2344 |
| Murici dos Portelas | 12 Oct, 15:30 | 81 | 1733 |
| Porto dos Gaúchos | 25 Oct, 17:10 | 55 | 1644 |
| São Luiz do Norte | 8 Oct, 14:36 | 25 | 1424 |
| Santa Filomena do Maranhão | 9 Oct, 20:35 | 132 | 1400 |
| Buritirama | 26 Oct, 21:25 | 58 | 1273 |
| Alenquer | 6 Oct, 16:34 | 19 | 1184 |
| Vila Santa Maria | 3 Oct, 14:20 | 40 | 1168 |
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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