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A savanna that evolved with fire
This story runs on MapBiomas, on climate-shift and on satellite layers prepared for this page in Earth Engine.
Exploratory: generated automatically from the UmaTerra platforms' data; not independently validated or peer reviewed.
The Cerrado evolved with fire, but not with just any fire. In 2024, after a strong El Niño and a dry year, it burned more than in almost a decade. This story measures the season with MapBiomas Fire, from the whole biome down to the month and the vegetation class, goes down to the Ilha do Bananal, where fire returns year after year, and reads the climate ahead in climate-shift.
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measured by satellite, by a gauge or from the geometry itself. estimated projected by climate models, or a reading that depends on a threshold. missing a part that did not respond this time.
This story runs on MapBiomas, on climate-shift and on satellite layers prepared for this page in Earth Engine.
The darkest bar is 2024.
MapBiomas Fire's monthly product dates each scar by the month it appeared.
Every burned pixel, crossed with MapBiomas' 2024 land cover.
MapBiomas' fire frequency counts, for each pixel, the years it burned.
From the whole biome to one place.
In light orange the fire of 2023; in red, that of 2024.
climate-shift follows every pixel of the 10 km circle in MapBiomas, from 1985 to today.
What has already been measured here, and what nine climate models project for 2041–2070.
climate-shift's ENSO tabs: the phase of the Pacific, and what each phase has done to the rain here.
climate-shift writes a short reading of every circle from its numbers.
Every number on this page comes from a public service or dataset, listed here.
Written with Claude Opus 5.5, by Anthropic, from the numbers Earth Engine and climate-shift computed: no number comes from the model. Versão em português.