Amazon Signal · 9 Oct 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: alert area up sharply on a week ago · fire detections well above the week's mean
GFW integrated alerts · rolling 30 days to 9 Oct 2026
3,897km² of possible forest change
+54% on a week ago
All nine basin countries. Alerts are satellite detections of possible change, not confirmed deforestation.
NASA FIRMS VIIRS · last 48 h
20,360active-fire detections
+177% on a week ago
Thermal anomalies across the basin bounding box, not a count of fires burning now.
INPE DETER · Brazil · week to 1 Oct 2026
Largest alerts of the latest published week:
- 1.59 km² near Marcelandia, MT — clear-cut, 26 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 1.42 km² near Uniao do Sul, MT — clear-cut, 26 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.89 km² near Boca do Acre, AM — clear-cut, 25 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.83 km² near Labrea, AM — clear-cut, 25 Sep 2026 · see it on the map
- 0.64 km² near Ipixuna do Para, PA — clear-cut, 29 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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