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Four Amazonas cities rank among Brazil’s top 20 for October fires
Four municipalities in Amazonas, in northern Brazil, were among the 20 municipalities with the most detected fire hotspots nationwide during the first 10 days of October.
The locations were Lábrea, Boca do Acre, Autazes and Itacoatiara.
The figures come from BDQueimadas, a system run by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research that tracks fires detected by satellite.
Its data listed Autazes with 151 hotspots and Itacoatiara with 75, while figures for Lábrea and Boca do Acre differed within the published ranking.
A separate system operated by the Amazon Protection System recorded 1,380 fire hotspots across Amazonas between October 1 and 10.
The figures show that fires were widespread in the state at the start of the month.
BDQueimadas allows people to check satellite detections by date, state and municipality.
Four Amazonas municipalities ranked among Brazil’s 20 municipalities with the most detected vegetation fires in the first 10 days of October, according to Inpe data.
Lábrea, Boca do Acre, Autazes and Itacoatiara were named in the ranking.
The article gives conflicting counts for Lábrea and Boca do Acre in different parts of its text.
Separately, Censipam data recorded 1,380 fire hotspots in Amazonas from October 1 to 10.
- Who
- Four municipalities in Amazonas: Lábrea, Boca do Acre, Autazes and Itacoatiara.
- What
- They ranked among Brazil’s 20 municipalities with the most fire hotspots detected in the first 10 days of October.
- When
- The data cover October 1–10; the article was published October 12, 2026.
- Where
- Amazonas, Brazil, and the national ranking.
- Why
- Not stated
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- Municipalities
- Lábrea, Boca do Acre, Autazes and Itacoatiara
- Period
- October 1–10
- Autazes
- 151 hotspots in the ranking
- Itacoatiara
- 75 hotspots in the ranking
- Amazonas total
- 1,380 hotspots, according to Censipam
- Data source
- Inpe’s BDQueimadas satellite-monitoring platform
Sources
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