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Wildfires in Belize

86 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 153,225 hectares burned across 6 districts.

Only fires of 1,000 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

Belize, at this point in the year: 41,570 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 118,308.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025115,079 ha

Worst year2019 173,371 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	145	41,570	GWIS
2025	225	66,451	GWIS
2024	469	168,420	GWIS
2023	477	157,400	GWIS
2022	316	87,095	GWIS
2021	324	84,117	GWIS
2020	421	122,902	GWIS
2019	616	173,371	GWIS
2018	245	69,475	GWIS
2017	344	115,603	GWIS
2016	355	105,952	GWIS
2015	514	158,305	GWIS
2014	313	100,090	GWIS
2013	641	199,163	GWIS
2012	267	72,790	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.