Fire near Pará (BR)

5.91°S, 53.49°W · first detected on 23 September at 06:27

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 23 September at 06:27 to 18 October at 07:36, that is 25 days, through 4,343 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 35,389 ha.

Detected extent: 35,389 ha
Cumulative power: 53,141 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 361 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 4,343
Estimated emissions: 50.9 kt of carbon; Carbon burnt in the 0.1 degree cells (about 10 km) around the fire, from 5 October 2026 to 18 October 2026. An order-of-magnitude estimate from GFAS (ECMWF, Copernicus CAMS): it also counts neighbouring fires in the same cell. Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information (2026).

These four figures cover the polar orbits alone, the ones that measure an area. The pass table below also counts geostationary detections, more frequent but too coarse for geometry, and its power column sums a whole pass where the peak above is that of a single pixel.

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a pixel counts in full (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is framed on this fire's footprint and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the period in which satellites saw it, from the first to the last detection, with twelve hours before and twenty-four after; the ticks on the bar mark the emergency services' announcements that fall within it. The cursor opens on the most powerful pass, and playback replays the whole fire in about thirty seconds. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “24 h” stacks twenty-four hours : a fire stays visible between two satellite passes, which come two to four times a day. Both are true, but they say different things.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 28 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power summed over the pass	Detections	Sensor
18 October at 07:36	3 MW	1	N
18 October at 06:57	44 MW	33	N21
17 October at 21:21	45 MW	3	Aqua
17 October at 19:54	9 MW	1	N21
17 October at 19:09	289 MW	37	N20
17 October at 18:52	186 MW	17	N
17 October at 18:13	10 MW	1	N21
17 October at 09:07	14 MW	2	Aqua
17 October at 07:53	28 MW	14	N
17 October at 07:18	43 MW	15	N21
17 October at 06:34	20 MW	7	N20
16 October at 20:45	465 MW	6	Aqua
16 October at 19:30	1,075 MW	72	N20
16 October at 19:09	1,218 MW	72	N
16 October at 18:35	737 MW	41	N21
16 October at 07:36	9 MW	4	N21
16 October at 06:53	76 MW	44	N20
16 October at 06:32	25 MW	11	N
16 October at 02:13	53 MW	5	Terra
15 October at 21:45	63 MW	2	Aqua
15 October at 19:28	212 MW	18	N
15 October at 13:57	346 MW	6	Terra
15 October at 09:29	6 MW	1	Aqua
15 October at 07:10	80 MW	46	N20
15 October at 06:51	56 MW	25	N
14 October at 21:06	684 MW	11	Aqua
14 October at 19:47	355 MW	16	N
14 October at 19:09	710 MW	74	N21
14 October at 18:26	449 MW	45	N20
14 October at 07:29	75 MW	33	N20
14 October at 07:10	136 MW	72	N
14 October at 06:34	94 MW	39	N21
14 October at 02:35	91 MW	6	Terra
13 October at 20:06	274 MW	14	N
13 October at 19:30	235 MW	17	N21
13 October at 18:45	945 MW	38	N20
13 October at 18:26	271 MW	25	N
13 October at 14:17	158 MW	7	Terra
13 October at 01:54	81 MW	7	Terra
12 October at 21:30	387 MW	19	Aqua
12 October at 19:05	398 MW	46	N20
12 October at 18:07	129 MW	6	N21
12 October at 09:14	10 MW	2	Aqua
12 October at 07:10	11 MW	5	N21
12 October at 06:26	30 MW	21	N20
11 October at 19:24	529 MW	52	N20
11 October at 19:05	462 MW	43	N
11 October at 18:26	417 MW	42	N21
11 October at 07:29	62 MW	27	N21
11 October at 06:46	77 MW	32	N20
11 October at 06:25	44 MW	22	N
11 October at 02:16	228 MW	23	Terra
10 October at 21:51	26 MW	1	Aqua
10 October at 19:41	236 MW	24	N20
10 October at 19:22	690 MW	47	N
10 October at 14:00	22 MW	2	Terra
10 October at 09:35	11 MW	1	Aqua
10 October at 07:48	18 MW	7	N21
10 October at 07:04	99 MW	60	N20
10 October at 06:44	82 MW	33	N
10 October at 06:08	100 MW	20	N21
9 October at 21:15	169 MW	9	Aqua
9 October at 20:02	633 MW	25	N20
9 October at 19:41	646 MW	53	N
9 October at 19:05	1,208 MW	76	N21
9 October at 18:20	639 MW	30	N20
9 October at 08:57	81 MW	5	Aqua
9 October at 07:25	281 MW	103	N20
9 October at 07:04	325 MW	141	N
9 October at 06:25	331 MW	89	N21
9 October at 02:35	637 MW	15	Terra
8 October at 20:00	592 MW	51	N
8 October at 19:24	1,995 MW	116	N21
8 October at 18:39	2,447 MW	98	N20
8 October at 18:20	2,086 MW	48	N
8 October at 14:19	343 MW	15	Terra
8 October at 07:42	50 MW	15	N20
8 October at 07:23	160 MW	63	N
8 October at 06:46	351 MW	84	N21
8 October at 01:56	254 MW	10	Terra
7 October at 19:41	657 MW	40	N21
7 October at 18:58	1,486 MW	54	N20
7 October at 18:37	1,282 MW	82	N
7 October at 09:18	23 MW	3	Aqua
7 October at 07:42	35 MW	19	N
7 October at 07:04	76 MW	31	N21
7 October at 06:19	39 MW	14	N20
6 October at 20:58	294 MW	8	Aqua
6 October at 19:15	549 MW	40	N20
6 October at 18:58	216 MW	12	N
6 October at 18:20	148 MW	9	N21
6 October at 07:59	9 MW	4	N
6 October at 07:25	28 MW	12	N21
6 October at 06:40	27 MW	16	N20
6 October at 06:19	31 MW	14	N
6 October at 02:18	52 MW	4	Terra
5 October at 19:15	300 MW	13	N
5 October at 18:39	5 MW	1	N21
5 October at 14:00	73 MW	5	Terra
5 October at 09:41	21 MW	1	Aqua
5 October at 06:57	116 MW	56	N20
5 October at 06:38	58 MW	25	N
5 October at 06:02	29 MW	6	N21
5 October at 01:39	262 MW	6	Terra
4 October at 21:19	1,107 MW	30	Aqua
4 October at 19:54	202 MW	12	N20
4 October at 19:35	1,215 MW	53	N
4 October at 18:58	890 MW	57	N21
4 October at 18:13	321 MW	17	N20
4 October at 09:03	53 MW	6	Aqua
4 October at 07:16	89 MW	30	N20
4 October at 06:57	93 MW	37	N
4 October at 06:19	94 MW	32	N21
4 October at 02:37	147 MW	7	Terra
3 October at 19:54	104 MW	11	N
3 October at 19:17	426 MW	34	N21
3 October at 18:33	424 MW	36	N20
3 October at 14:19	40 MW	3	Terra
3 October at 07:36	38 MW	30	N20
3 October at 07:16	41 MW	22	N
3 October at 06:40	62 MW	28	N21
3 October at 01:58	142 MW	8	Terra
2 October at 21:42	424 MW	4	Aqua
2 October at 19:37	555 MW	33	N21
2 October at 18:52	254 MW	10	N20
2 October at 18:33	719 MW	21	N
2 October at 09:26	52 MW	4	Aqua
2 October at 07:53	99 MW	23	N20
2 October at 07:33	103 MW	30	N
2 October at 06:57	185 MW	53	N21
2 October at 06:14	71 MW	18	N20
2 October at 02:56	103 MW	2	Terra
1 October at 21:04	1,793 MW	21	Aqua
1 October at 19:54	609 MW	14	N21
1 October at 19:09	857 MW	50	N20
1 October at 18:52	685 MW	41	N
1 October at 18:13	242 MW	16	N21
1 October at 14:42	586 MW	8	Terra
1 October at 07:53	10 MW	5	N
1 October at 07:18	24 MW	9	N21
1 October at 06:34	12 MW	4	N20
1 October at 06:14	7 MW	3	N
1 October at 02:20	149 MW	10	Terra
30 September at 19:30	453 MW	45	N20
30 September at 19:09	705 MW	40	N
30 September at 18:35	430 MW	19	N21
30 September at 14:02	7 MW	1	Terra
30 September at 07:36	4 MW	3	N21
30 September at 06:53	10 MW	9	N20
30 September at 06:32	4 MW	2	N
29 September at 21:28	123 MW	3	Aqua
29 September at 19:47	101 MW	7	N20
29 September at 19:28	162 MW	15	N
29 September at 18:52	281 MW	7	N21
29 September at 09:09	4 MW	1	Aqua
29 September at 07:10	7 MW	6	N20
29 September at 06:51	7 MW	5	N
29 September at 06:14	4 MW	3	N21
28 September at 20:49	252 MW	2	Aqua
28 September at 19:47	126 MW	11	N
28 September at 19:09	34 MW	5	N21
28 September at 18:26	79 MW	8	N20
28 September at 07:29	4 MW	1	N20
28 September at 07:10	5 MW	6	N
27 September at 07:27	2 MW	1	N
27 September at 06:51	3 MW	2	N21
26 September at 21:13	17 MW	2	Aqua
26 September at 19:05	26 MW	3	N20
25 September at 19:24	42 MW	3	N20
25 September at 19:05	21 MW	2	N
24 September at 21:34	197 MW	5	Aqua
24 September at 19:41	57 MW	11	N20
24 September at 19:22	251 MW	24	N
24 September at 18:45	168 MW	7	N21
24 September at 07:04	1 MW	1	N20
24 September at 06:44	1 MW	1	N
23 September at 19:41	188 MW	13	N
23 September at 19:05	187 MW	20	N21
23 September at 18:20	23 MW	3	N20
23 September at 14:23	60 MW	3	Terra
23 September at 07:23	5 MW	3	N20
23 September at 07:04	9 MW	6	N
23 September at 06:27	8 MW	3	N21
23 September at 02:03	21 MW	2	Terra
22 September at 20:00	97 MW	11	N
22 September at 19:24	481 MW	40	N21
22 September at 18:39	708 MW	39	N20
22 September at 18:20	164 MW	12	N
22 September at 07:42	17 MW	12	N20
22 September at 07:23	42 MW	23	N
22 September at 06:46	47 MW	23	N21
21 September at 21:17	318 MW	14	Aqua
21 September at 19:41	386 MW	30	N21
21 September at 18:58	534 MW	29	N20
21 September at 18:37	607 MW	38	N
21 September at 14:44	92 MW	2	Terra
21 September at 09:01	6 MW	1	Aqua
21 September at 07:42	92 MW	81	N

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