Wildfire near Cottica, Brazil

GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Cottica, Brazil since October 23, 2026, 7 days as of its latest update on October 30. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 58,426 acres (23,644 hectares, 236 km²), roughly 4 times the size of Manhattan, or about 44,262 American football fields.
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


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.
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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