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Fire near Maranhão

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 Maranhão · Maranhão
First detected20 Sep 2026 16:22 UTC
Last detected20 Sep 2026 18:41 UTC
Satellite detections9
Peak intensity302 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 — (Sentinel-2, 2026-09-20) Before — (Sentinel-2, 2026-08-18) Before · 2026-08-18 After · 2026-09-20

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 9

TimeIntensity (MW)Source
20 Sep 2026 18:41 UTC97firms
20 Sep 2026 18:41 UTC74firms
20 Sep 2026 16:58 UTC10firms
20 Sep 2026 16:58 UTC7firms
20 Sep 2026 16:58 UTC7firms
20 Sep 2026 16:22 UTC23firms
20 Sep 2026 16:22 UTC302firms
20 Sep 2026 16:22 UTC23firms
20 Sep 2026 16:22 UTC11firms

Official & data sources

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

All fires on 20 Sep 2026

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