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Wildfire near Xique-Xique, Brazil

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GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Xique-Xique, Brazil since October 8, 2026, 7 days as of its latest update on October 15. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 53,231 acres (21,542 hectares, 215 km²), roughly 3.6 times the size of Manhattan, or about 40,327 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryBrazil
SinceOct 8, 2026
Tracked for7 days
Burned area21,542 ha · 53,230 acres
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How the size is measured

GDACS estimates burned areas from satellite data, so the figures cover the whole fire complex and may include several fires burning close together.

Seen from space

Satellite picture, When tracking began · October 8, 2026
When tracking began · October 8, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 15, 2026
Latest · October 15, 2026

True color from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite. Red dots are fires detected by their heat; smoke shows as gray-brown haze. The ring marks where the event was reported. Pictures: NASA Worldview (GIBS) from the daily satellite passes; clouds can hide the ground on some days.

Did you know?

The Big Burn, 1910. In about two days in August 1910, the Big Burn swept some 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of Idaho and Montana and shaped US firefighting for decades.

GDACS report. Source: GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System of the United Nations and the European Commission (CC BY 4.0).

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