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Wildfires in Amapá

Amapá, Brazil: 42 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 16 municipalities since 2016, burning 221,277 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pracuúba in 9 November 2016, with 14,949 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
221,277ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.6%
141,793 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 16
Largest fire
14,949ha
Pracuúba · 9 November 2016
Inhabitants
671,935
329.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 High 34° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 34° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 35° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 36° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 36° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 35° · 34 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 36° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 36° · 33 % · 31 km/h

Burning now in the region

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Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Mazagão 21,924 inhabitants 53,609 ha · 4.0 %
  2. Calçoene 10,612 inhabitants 48,295 ha · 3.4 %
  3. Oiapoque 27,482 inhabitants 38,314 ha · 1.7 %
  4. Amapá 30,174 ha · 3.5 %
  5. Tartarugalzinho 12,945 inhabitants 22,287 ha · 3.3 %
  6. Pracuúba 7,943 inhabitants 19,861 ha · 4.0 %
  7. Vitória do Jari 11,291 inhabitants 5,554 ha · 2.2 %
  8. Macapá 3,183 ha · 0.5 %
  9. Itaubal 442,933 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261143,435 Mazagão 5,404 ha
202526,286 Oiapoque 3,247 ha
2024740,152 Mazagão 11,344 ha
20231068,928 Calçoene 12,728 ha
201913,329 Calçoene 3,329 ha
201814,821 Amapá 4,821 ha
2017314,651 Mazagão 7,520 ha
2016739,677 Pracuúba 14,949 ha

All fires in Amapá · 42

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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