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For this purpose, reference perimeters were created using Sentinel-2 images in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the year 2019. The sampling was adapted to the peculiarities of the Sentinel-2 tiling grid system, and statistically representative sample units were selected for biomes and fire activity through stratified random sampling. Fire perimeters were extracted using a Random Forest supervised classification and results were manually supervised and refined. Efforts were made to maximize the temporal length covered by the reference perimeters for each sample, aiming to minimize temporal errors when using the perimeters for validation. The dataset covers 569,214.2 km2 (3.5% burned, 88.7% unburned, and 7.8% unobserved). These perimeters were compared with higher spatial resolution PlanetScope-derived perimeters, resulting in 8.4% commission errors and 3.8% omission errors. As a validation exercise, MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 global burned area products were validated using the Sentinel-2 reference dataset created, confirming that the temporal extent of the reference perimeters significantly affects the validation of such products. 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