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Wildfires in Amazonas

Amazonas, Brazil: 456 fires with a page have entered 31 of its 62 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,694,130 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lábrea in 13 July 2024, with 44,073 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
2,694,130ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.7%
1,589,734 km²
fires
456
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
31
of 62
Largest fire
44,073ha
Lábrea · 13 July 2024
Inhabitants
1,616,161
1,667.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 34° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 51 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 35° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 34° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 63 % · 25 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Lábrea 45,448 inhabitants 912,828 ha · 13 %
  2. Apuí 20,647 inhabitants 629,662 ha · 12 %
  3. Novo Aripuanã 23,818 inhabitants 310,947 ha · 7.5 %
  4. Manicoré 200,152 ha · 4.1 %
  5. Barcelos 18,834 inhabitants 111,058 ha · 0.9 %
  6. Maués 61,204 inhabitants 81,169 ha · 2.0 %
  7. Boca do Acre 35,447 inhabitants 80,621 ha · 3.7 %
  8. Humaitá 57,473 inhabitants 78,901 ha · 2.4 %
  9. Canutama 16,869 inhabitants 53,770 ha · 1.6 %
  10. Urucurituba 23,945 inhabitants 35,424 ha · 12 %
  11. Manaquiri 17,107 inhabitants 26,169 ha · 6.5 %
  12. Autazes 41,564 inhabitants 24,988 ha · 3.2 %

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
202657334,689 Apuí 20,283 ha
20251256,582 Lábrea 9,352 ha
202499748,465 Lábrea 44,073 ha
202329124,066 Apuí 9,309 ha
202271395,101 Lábrea 36,297 ha
202148290,069 Lábrea 41,995 ha
202027136,008 Lábrea 15,645 ha
201944258,442 Lábrea 14,827 ha
20182085,289 Lábrea 11,553 ha
20172295,221 Novo Aripuanã 7,073 ha
201629177,630 Barcelos 14,436 ha

All fires in Amazonas · 458

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).