Open Earth

Brazil

Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, weather warnings and conditions across Brazil, with every town we track. Updated automatically from official sources.

Notable events, 12 months

200

Quakes, 12 months (all sizes)

2

Strongest quake, 10 years

M6.8

Active now

3

Storms, fires, floods and more

Hazard summary for Brazil

In the past 12 months Open Earth recorded 200 notable hazard events in Brazil: 195 wildfires, 3 floods, 2 earthquakes. Seismic networks logged 2 earthquakes of all sizes over the same period. The strongest earthquake in the last ten years measured magnitude 6.8. Right now 3 wildfires are active.

By hazard

Notable events in the last 30 days and 12 months.

Notable events by month, last 12 months

Temperature and air quality history

The extremes across every city we monitor in Brazil, day by day.

Daily highest and lowest temperature, last 30 days

Each bar runs from the coldest low (teal) to the hottest high (orange) recorded anywhere in Brazil that day.

40°C9°C
16 Oct18 Oct

Worst air quality each day

16 Oct18 Oct
Hottest day on record
39°C / 101°F
Petrolina · 16 Oct 2026
Coldest night on record
10°C / 50°F
Caxias do Sul · 17 Oct 2026
Worst air on record
AQI 166
São João de Meriti · 16 Oct 2026

Monitored cities, hottest first

Records since tracking began on 16 Oct 2026. Hourly modelled values from Open-Meteo, stored permanently by Open Earth.

Recent activity

Notable events in Brazil in the last 90 days.

Strongest earthquakes on record

Magnitude 2.5 and above, since 1900.

Deadliest disasters in history

Damaging earthquakes, tsunamis and eruptions in Brazil, from NOAA records going back centuries.

  • M4.6 earthquake, Minas Gerais

    9 December 20071 killed6 injured76 homes destroyed

  • M4.8 earthquake, Joao Camara, Natal

    30 November 19861 killed500 homes destroyed$5m damage

  • M4.6 earthquake, Pereiro

    23 February 19681 killed

  • M5.1 earthquake, Sao Paulo

    27 January 19221 killed

  • M7.6 earthquake, Peru-Brazil

    24 November 2015

  • M4.1 earthquake, Montes Claros

    19 May 2012

  • Earthquake, Alcantaras

    21 May 2008

  • M4.3 earthquake, Sobral

    29 February 2008

  • M5.2 earthquake, Pacajus

    20 November 1980

  • M7.6 earthquake, Acre

    9 November 1963

Satellite fire detections

Heat signatures spotted by NASA's VIIRS satellite instrument in Brazil. These include wildfires, farm burning and industrial heat.

Satellite fire detections are being connected. Counts for Brazil will appear here automatically once the feed starts.

Rocket launches

4 launches on record from the launch site in Brazil, 1 in the last 12 months.

All launches

Next launches

No launches scheduled yet.

Recent launches

Regions of Brazil

27 regions and 2,277 towns tracked.