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
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