What the records say
- When
- Jun 2024 – Nov 2024
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 17.40° S, 57.50° W
- Description
- 2024 wetland fires starting in the rainy season
- Deaths
- 2
- Cause
- slash-and-burn, 2023–2024 South American drought, arson
2024 Brazil wildfires
In 2024, 62,131 wildfires detected by the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) burned an estimated 46,101,798 hectares of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Amazon rainforest, and the Cerrado, Specially São Paulo's interior.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2024 Brazil wildfires: 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) of tropical wetland in the Pantanal are affected, a 935% increase in the number of fires over the same…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page