In 2024, nearly 279,000 wildfire outbreaks were identified across Brazil. This represented a 46 percent increase in occurrences compared to the previous year. Roughly half of the country's forest fires that year were located in the Amazon rainforest biome.
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INPE. (January 22, 2025). Number of wildfires in Brazil from 2005 to 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041354/number-wildfires-brazil/
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