[4] Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to stop illegal deforestation in the Amazon by 2030 to help reduce the impact of global warming.

Brazilian Greenpeace spokesman Romulo Batista stated that global warming and decreased rainfall created dryer environments that caused vegetation to be more dry and thus be more susceptible to spreading fires.

Efforts to extinguish the fires were complicated by high winds and the terrain of the wetlands making access and movement difficult.

[7] On 31 August, IBAMA fined two companies more than R$ 100 million for a massive fire in the Pantanal caused by maintenance workers on a railway line in Corumbá.

[8] On 7 September, IBAMA authorized the sending of firefighters to Bolivia to combat forest fires that pose an imminent risk to the Pantanal.

[3] In late August, wildfires caused by prolonged drought conditions and strong wind gusts impacted thirty cities in São Paulo state, either directly affecting them or burning near them.

The man arrested on day 25 is a 42-year-old mechanic, caught by the Military Police of São Paulo State while setting fire to a forest near the central region of Batatais after an anonymous tip.

[14][15] On 27 August, a 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a wooded area on the banks of the Archimedes Lammoglia Highway (SP-075), in Salto.

[16] On the night of 28 August, the Military Police of São Paulo State arrested two men suspected of setting fire to a vegetation area on the side of the Fábio Talarico Highway, in Franca.

[18][12] On 13 September, a man was arrested after being caught setting fire to a wooded area in Vassouras, in the south of Rio de Janeiro.