Number of wildfires in the Legal Amazon in Brazil 2000-2023

In 2023, nearly 127,000 wildfire outbreaks were reported in the Legal Amazon region in Brazil. In comparison to the previous year, this represented a decrease of 12.5 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.