Wildfires in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil · state

🔴 10 active fires

Fire-weather risk today

Very low

tomorrow: Very low · rising ↑

Fires in 2026

366

366 total since 2026

Area burned 2026

9859 ha

from satellite perimeters

Air quality now

Moderate

EAQI 40· PM2.5 15.5 µg/m³ · includes wildfire smoke

How this page knows. Brazil has no public real-time incident feed, so these fires are satellite detections (VIIRS, twice daily) clustered into incidents — not a fire service's log. A small fire between passes, or one under cloud, is not here. Each detection is filed under the nearest state centroid rather than a boundary test, so close to a border it can land on the neighbour's page. Fire-weather and air-quality figures are modelled at this same state (Rio de Janeiro).

Fires by year

First season on record — year-over-year comparisons appear as we accumulate history.

Active fires now

Brasil Monitoring › Brasil Monitoring· 21.0 ha › Brasil Monitoring › Brasil Monitoring › Brasil Monitoring › Brasil Monitoring › Brasil Monitoring· 48.0 ha › Brasil Monitoring· 119 ha › Brasil Monitoring· 9.0 ha › Brasil Monitoring· 523 ha ›

Fire history

26/09/2026 · Brasil Monitoring › 26/09/2026 · Brasil 21.0 ha ·Monitoring › 26/09/2026 · Brasil Monitoring › 26/09/2026 · Brasil Monitoring › 26/09/2026 · Brasil Monitoring › 26/09/2026 · Brasil Monitoring › 26/09/2026 · Brasil 48.0 ha ·Monitoring › 25/09/2026 · Brasil 31 h › 25/09/2026 · Brasil 119 ha ·Monitoring › 25/09/2026 · Brasil 9.0 ha ·Monitoring › 24/09/2026 · Brasil 523 ha ·Monitoring › 24/09/2026 · Brasil 7.0 ha ·25 h › 22/09/2026 · Brasil 26.0 ha ·24 h › 22/09/2026 · Brasil 36 h › 22/09/2026 · Brasil 24 h › 22/09/2026 · Brasil 9.0 ha ·36 h › 22/09/2026 · Brasil 23.0 ha ·25 h › 21/09/2026 · Brasil 94.0 ha ·48 h › 20/09/2026 · Brasil 10.0 ha ·24 h › 19/09/2026 · Brasil 415 ha ·48 h ›

Fire detections from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), clustered into incidents by us. Region centroids are area-weighted from public boundary datasets; a fire is attributed to the nearest one. Fire-weather risk is our own estimate (Canadian FWI on Open-Meteo forecasts), not an official warning — for those see your national meteorological service and fire authority. In an emergency call 193.