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Wildfires in Brazil

8,560 fires over 3,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 73,356,218 hectares burned across 1,210 municipalities.

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out 25 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Brazil, at this point in the year: 10,628,369 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 26,357,416.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202530,575,214 ha

Worst year2024 41,259,349 ha

With a page here8,560 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	25,081	10,668,181	GWIS
2025	34,523	16,361,345	GWIS
2024	65,166	41,259,349	GWIS
2023	71,386	27,490,973	GWIS
2022	80,171	32,594,906	GWIS
2021	67,635	29,105,755	GWIS
2020	77,483	37,382,611	GWIS
2019	73,892	33,958,619	GWIS
2018	62,127	19,931,958	GWIS
2017	81,166	37,605,864	GWIS
2016	75,180	30,060,755	GWIS
2015	98,313	41,064,128	GWIS
2014	74,529	28,621,567	GWIS
2013	53,675	18,211,847	GWIS
2012	83,725	39,121,667	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	38k	41k	10k	14k	24k	86k	330k	1,811k	2,499k	689k			5,542,227	Santarém 138,511 ha
2025					14k	28k	82k	1,365k	2,758k	997k	90k	12k	5,347,398	São Salvador do Tocantins 109,134 ha
2024	42k	187k	143k	26k	27k	405k	2,048k	7,714k	3,951k	552k	211k	3k	15,307,825	Miranda 276,504 ha
2023			3k	4k	9k	27k	92k	593k	1,110k	911k	558k	31k	3,338,193	Barão de Melgaço 464,290 ha
2022	37k	4k		4k	51k	37k	197k	2,668k	1,314k	505k	24k	21k	4,859,864	Altamira 61,533 ha
2021					7k	16k	446k	2,576k	3,388k	539k		12k	6,984,772	Wanderley 216,996 ha
2020	53k		81k	59k	3k	341k	1,265k	2,795k	4,422k	947k	16k	11k	9,993,631	Barão de Melgaço 801,620 ha
2019	22k	260k	91k	31k	7k	16k	411k	2,796k	3,093k	739k	171k	21k	7,659,907	Iracema 198,396 ha
2018			25k			8k	144k	660k	748k	133k		5k	1,722,189	Nova Nazaré 58,818 ha
2017	10k	4k	3k			27k	251k	3,042k	3,829k	1,024k	90k	23k	8,302,710	Cumaru do Norte 215,807 ha
2016	221k	35k	119k	3k		71k	753k	1,260k	1,408k	342k	75k	10k	4,297,502	Nova Nazaré 56,021 ha