While climate and human-induced forest degradation is increasing in the Amazon, fire impacts on forest dynamics remain understudied in the wetter regions of the basin, which are susceptible to large wildfires only during extreme droughts. To address this gap, we installed burned and unburned plots immediately after a wildfire in the northern Purus-Madeira (central Amazon) during the 2015 El-Niño. We measured all individuals ≥10cm in diameter at breast height, and conducted recensuses to track the demographic drivers of biomass change over three years. We also assessed how stem-level growth and mortality were influenced by fire intensity (proxied by char height) and tree morphological traits (size and wood density). Overall, the burned forest lost 27.3% stem density and 12.8% biomass, concentrated in small and medium trees. Mortality drove these losses in the first two years and recruitment decreased in the third year. Fire increased growth in lower wood-density and larger-sized trees, while char height had transitory strong effects increasing tree mortality. Our findings suggest that fire impacts are weaker in the wetter Amazon. Here trees of greater sizes and higher wood densities may confer a margin of fire resistance; however, this may not extend to higher-intensity fires arising from climate change.