In 2023, the number of wildfire outbreaks in Brazil's Legal Amazon area saw a year-over-year decrease of approximately 12.5 percent. Just three years earlier, the Legal Amazon had recorded the highest number of occurrences reported since 2010. The Legal Amazon area comprises nine Brazilian states in the Amazon basin: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins.
Change in number of wildfires in the Legal Amazon area in Brazil from 2006 to 2023
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