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Brazil Wildfires in 2024
January 27 , 2025
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- Over 30.87 million hectares of wilderness were consumed by fire, an area roughly the size of state Maharashtra in India or Italy.
- There was a 79 percent increase in burned area from 2023, when 17.24 million hectares were destroyed — an increase of 13.63 million hectares.
- This figure is the very highest one since 2019, when 18.08 million hectares were incinerated.
- 10.63 million hectares were lost in a single month -September 2024.
- Amazônia was the worst-hit region, losing 17.9 million hectares, followed by the Cerrado with 9.7 million hectares, Pantanal with 1.9 million hectares and Mata Atlântica with 1 million hectares.
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