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Wildfires in Argentina

2,779 fires over 1,500 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 11,012,426 hectares burned across 266 departments.

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Argentina, at this point in the year: 1,024,312 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 3,489,771.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,325,128 ha

Worst year2020 9,729,095 ha

With a page here2,779 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	3,301	1,029,372	GWIS
2025	6,930	2,628,875	GWIS
2024	7,025	2,715,209	GWIS
2023	7,290	2,817,357	GWIS
2022	13,698	6,225,714	GWIS
2021	11,051	3,909,732	GWIS
2020	23,597	9,729,095	GWIS
2019	9,334	3,220,002	GWIS
2018	9,848	3,480,572	GWIS
2017	10,414	4,271,639	GWIS
2016	9,660	4,253,082	GWIS
2015	8,692	3,051,992	GWIS
2014	6,475	2,464,832	GWIS
2013	12,158	4,639,816	GWIS
2012	11,417	3,972,598	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	122k	37k	2k		3k		16k	54k	69k	2k			303,344	Futaleufú 66,378 ha
2025	102k	83k	51k	5k	5k	4k	23k	25k	87k	64k	80k	120k	648,856	Huiliches 25,310 ha
2024	21k	27k	89k	2k			13k	74k	263k	46k	7k	21k	563,726	Punilla 49,705 ha
2023	172k	70k	31k	14k	6k		21k	69k	87k	67k	58k	8k	602,387	Ituzaingó 44,167 ha
2022	786k	294k	36k			17k	96k	84k	242k	255k	143k	90k	2,041,622	San Miguel 190,502 ha
2021	23k	17k	43k		13k	2k	48k	153k	49k	159k	15k	191k	712,686	Sobremonte 28,897 ha
2020	27k	50k	88k	68k	63k	57k	261k	548k	927k	228k	131k	47k	2,495,238	Chacabuco 115,187 ha
2019	43k	88k	8k	11k		2k	12k	55k	143k	94k	12k	45k	512,890	Caleu Caleu 17,780 ha
2018	257k		57k	30k	3k		2k	116k	92k	52k		21k	629,647	Utracán 71,910 ha
2017	349k	77k	16k	2k		4k	40k	67k	103k	145k	137k	158k	1,099,056	General Alvear 82,658 ha
2016	45k	27k	21k	3k		2k	16k	138k	147k	34k	16k	954k	1,402,974	Caleu Caleu 231,424 ha