Following increasing interest in the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest, I decided to dive into the data. This animation shows the month-by-month total of active forest fires from satellite imagery records across Brazil. While 2019 has been a dangerous year due to forest fires, it is not exceptional when compared to historical trends.
I wrote a short article looking at historical trends in forest fires in Brazil, with more visualisations. You can find it on my blog or Medium.