Legal Amazon: annual number of wildfires 2024

In 2024, over 190,000 wildfire outbreaks were reported in the Legal Amazon region in Brazil. In comparison to the previous year, this represented an increase of over 51 percent. Within the displayed period, the highest number of outbreaks was recorded in 2004, when more than 275,000 occurrences were registered.
The Legal Amazon (or Amazônia Legal, in Portuguese) is an area comprising the territory of nine Brazilian states in the Amazon basin: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins. Altogether, it occupies more than five million square kilometers.

Number of wildfires in the Legal Amazon area in Brazil from 2000 to 2024

Characteristic	Number of wildfires
2024	192,700
2023	126,957
2022	145,101
2021	102,210
2020	150,783
2019	126,089
2018	90,408
2017	149,411
2016	124,046
2015	146,366
2014	119,827
2013	85,021
2012	136,650

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January 2025

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Brazil

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2000 to 2024

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