With support from NASA, scientists have developed a new approach to cluster individual fire detections into fire events and classify each fire event across the southern Amazon and surrounding biomes. Of the three fire types occurring in forested landscapes, deforestation fires showed the largest contribution to VIIRS 375 m satellite fire detections, followed by small clearing and agricultural fires, and understory forest fires. Updated daily, the Amazon Dashboard provides quick access to new information on the location, fire type, start date, spread rate, and duration of individual fire events across the Amazon. For more information, or to explore and download the near-real time data, please see our Amazon dashboard.
