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Wildfires in Amazonas
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 124,960 km² of Amazonas at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 29,740 km², ranking 8th of 27 regions of Brazil.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2024, with 44,150 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 16,160 km². The 2021–2025 average is 33% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 83% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 September 2023, with detections in 2,597 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 124,960 km² with at least one detection, 49% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 41,770 | 33% |
| 2 years | 22,060 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 36,510 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 22,560 | 18% |
| 11 years or more | 2,040 | 1.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -9.25, -65.75 and holds 4.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 22,000 | 29,063 |
| 2013 | 19,560 | 21,750 |
| 2014 | 23,180 | 27,655 |
| 2015 | 34,270 | 50,226 |
| 2016 | 28,960 | 39,041 |
| 2017 | 27,160 | 36,131 |
| 2018 | 28,110 | 37,550 |
| 2019 | 27,550 | 39,241 |
| 2020 | 35,500 | 52,374 |
| 2021 | 30,590 | 45,518 |
| 2022 | 36,690 | 61,697 |
| 2023 | 42,450 | 68,199 |
| 2024 | 44,150 | 77,257 |
| 2025 | 16,160 | 18,619 |
Other regions of Brazil
- Pará102,950 km² in an average year
- Maranhão74,700 km² in an average year
- Mato Grosso70,190 km² in an average year
- Tocantins52,480 km² in an average year
- Piauí37,190 km² in an average year
- Bahia36,820 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Rondônia173 km
- Pando, Bolivia396 km
- Acre417 km
- Madre de Dios, Peru507 km
- El Beni, Bolivia526 km
- Puno, Peru673 km