Fire near Gilbués

Status: ✓ Confirmed

This fire is confirmed by repeated, intense satellite detections (or by official information).

⚠️ The fires shown are automatic satellite heat detections from NASA FIRMS. They are not verified on the ground and are not 100% accurate — they can include false alarms (industrial heat, agricultural burning) or miss small or cloud-covered fires. Do not use this map for safety decisions; always follow official sources.

Where Gilbués · Piauí

First detected17 Sep 2026 16:33 UTC

Last detected17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC

Satellite detections10

Peak intensity315 MW

Active days1

Satellite before & after

High-resolution Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery of the area, before the fire and after. Drag the slider to compare.

After — Gilbués (Sentinel-2, 2026-09-17)

Before — Gilbués (Sentinel-2, 2026-09-10)

Before · 2026-09-10 After · 2026-09-17

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 10

Time	Intensity (MW)	Source
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	20	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	165	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	19	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	150	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	229	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	91	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	315	firms
17 Sep 2026 18:24 UTC	196	firms
17 Sep 2026 17:15 UTC	4	firms
17 Sep 2026 16:33 UTC	7	firms

Official & data sources

INPE — Queimadas Program ↗ NASA FIRMS active-fire data ↗ INPE — Brazil Fire Monitoring (Programa Queimadas) ↗

All fires on 17 Sep 2026