Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize forest fires in Brazil. Statistics – including regions with the most fire alerts and how current fires compare to historical trends – can be customized, easily shared and downloaded for offline use.

Aug 9, 2024 · Amazon Forest Fires Rage in Roraima. Huge understory fires are spreading throughout the state in northern Brazil as drought and heat turn the rainforest into tinder. Image of the Day Land Fires

In 2024, 62,131 wildfires detected by the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) burned an estimated 46,101,798 hectares (113,920,020 acres) of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Amazon rainforest, and the Cerrado. [1]

Explore the state of forests in Brazil by analyzing tree cover change on GFW’s interactive global forest map using satellite data. Learn about deforestation rates and other land use practices, forest fires, forest communities, biodiversity and much more.

Aug 29, 2019 · About 76,000 fires were burning across the Brazilian Amazon at last official count, an increase of over 80 percent over the same time period last year, according to data from Brazil’s...

In September alone, 13.7 million acres of forest burned—an area comparable to the size of Costa Rica—according to MapBiomas. In the first 11 months of the year, the number of fire outbreaks in the Brazilian Amazon increased by 43.7% compared to 2023.

Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize key statistics about forests in Brazil. Statistics – including rates of forest change, forest extent, drivers of deforestation, and deforestation and fire alerts – can be customized, easily shared and downloaded for offline use.

Mar 31, 2021 · This map represents the percentage difference of detected forest fires between 2015 and 2020. Note that states that are deep in the legal Amazon, such as Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia have 50-200% increase in forest fires, whereas Pará and …

Between January and August 2020, 44,013 outbreaks of fires were reported in the Amazonas and Pantanal (biggest rainforest and wetlands by area in the world) which is a 23% increase from last year. Nearly all of the wildfires were caused by human activity and companies taking a "Slash-and-burn approach" by using fires to deforest areas to ...

This website was made to present the growth of fire incidents in Brazil, with a 3D interactive globe, where you filter the data and navigate trough regions, seeing the difference between the years of 2023 and 2024.