Amazon wildfires by the numbers

More than 82,200 fires have been detected in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, with over 1,660 new fires ignited in just two days


WILDFIRES IN SOUTH AMERICA, 2019 

French Guyana 	11
Suriname 	162
Ecuador 	318
Uruguay		391
Guiana 		896 
Chile  		2,935
Peru    	6,397
Paraguay 	10,627
Argentina 	14,067
Colombia	14,331
Bolivia 	19,071
Venezuela 	26,547
Brazil		82,285


WILDFIRES IN BRAZIL, 1998-2018
(Detected by satellite, Jan 1 to Aug 26)

2018 45,656
2017 59,672
2016 78,263
2015 58,936
2014 64,632
2013 40,166
2012 77,841
2011 43,582
2010 124,936
2009 42,347
2008 57,634
2007 128,257
2006 86,446
2005 130,052
2004 123,506
2003 113,665
2002 98,274
2001 49,065
2000 32,437
1999 47,810
1998 39,197

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 (’000s)

Years with more fires than 2019


Amount of Amazon rainforest within Brazil 60%


ECUADOR
COLOMBIA
VENEZUELA
GUYANA 
SURINAME
FRENCH GUIANA
BRAZIL 
BOLIVIA
PARAGUAY
URUGUAY 
ARGENTINA
CHILE
PERU
Amazon Basin

1,500km 930 miles

Countries containing parts of Amazon rainforest

 
Amount pledged by G7 to help fight fires $22m

Cost  of G7 summit $40m 


Source: Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, National Geographic, PBS
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