The week in the Amazon basin · 28 Sep 2026
The Amazon basin as the satellites saw it, from the same open feeds as the live map. Every number carries its window and its caveat.
Why today: weekly roundup
GFW integrated alerts · rolling 30 days to 28 Sep 2026
2,529km² of possible forest change
+10% on a week ago
All nine basin countries. Alerts are satellite detections of possible change, not confirmed deforestation.
NASA FIRMS VIIRS · last 48 h
7,569active-fire detections
−49% on a week ago
Thermal anomalies across the basin bounding box, not a count of fires burning now.
INPE DETER · Brazil · week to 18 Sep 2026
Largest alerts of the latest published week:
- 1.19 km² near Altamira, PA — clear-cut, 16 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.95 km² near Sao Felix do Xingu, PA — clear-cut, 16 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.79 km² near Autazes, AM — clear-cut, 13 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.74 km² near Porto dos Gauchos, MT — clear-cut, 15 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.72 km² near Sao Jose do Xingu, MT — clear-cut, 14 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
INPE publishes with a lag of about a week. Drawn from the 6,000 largest alerts of the trailing year, so this is a list of large events, not a count.
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