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Wildfires in Bolivia
1,904 fires over 3,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 26,165,450 hectares burned across 83 municipalities.
Only fires of 3,000 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.
Key facts
- According to Copernicus GWIS, 2,798,557 hectares burned in Bolivia in 2025.
- The worst year in Bolivia since 2016 was 2024, with 16,484,715 hectares burned according to Copernicus GWIS.
- According to Copernicus GWIS estimates, an average of 7,584,783 hectares burn in Bolivia each year (2016–2025 average).
- Fires counted by Copernicus GWIS in Bolivia so far in 2026 (up to week 42): 3,963, against an average of 12,625 per full year in 2016–2025.
- Largest fire recorded by WorldFires in Bolivia since 2016: San Ignacio fire, 25 June 2024, with 4,468,196 hectares burned — perimeter rebuilt from heat detections (Copernicus GWIS).
Figures computed on 24 October 2026 from the WorldFires database; each sentence names its source. Reusable under CC BY 4.0 with credit to WorldFires.
How the season is going · week 42
Copernicus GWIS · provisional26 %
against the 2012–2025 average
Bolivia is running below the usual for this point in the year, at 26 % of the average: 1,427,535 hectares burned up to week 42, against an average of 5,420,829 in 2012–2025 (Copernicus GWIS). No year between 2012 and 2025 had burned this little by now.
- 2026
- 1,427,535 ha
- average
- 5,420,829 ha
- minimum
- 2,105,076 ha
- maximum
- 16,033,564 ha
GWIS estimates for the current year are provisional and may change.
The season, week by week
Copernicus GWIS
2026
average 2012–2025
lowest and highest
The GWIS yearly series
2012–2026Yearly average 2016–20257,584,783 ha
Worst year2024 16,484,715 ha
With a page here1,904 since 2016
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4,051 | 1,448,733 | GWIS |
| 2025 | 5,875 | 2,798,557 | GWIS |
| 2024 | 13,736 | 16,484,715 | GWIS |
| 2023 | 14,434 | 7,909,238 | GWIS |
| 2022 | 16,026 | 8,280,322 | GWIS |
| 2021 | 12,633 | 7,389,140 | GWIS |
| 2020 | 13,984 | 7,578,684 | GWIS |
| 2019 | 13,068 | 8,928,903 | GWIS |
| 2018 | 11,798 | 4,570,378 | GWIS |
| 2017 | 11,139 | 5,199,247 | GWIS |
| 2016 | 13,554 | 6,708,642 | GWIS |
| 2015 | 8,388 | 3,867,631 | GWIS |
| 2014 | 6,712 | 2,456,350 | GWIS |
| 2013 | 7,234 | 2,966,171 | GWIS |
| 2012 | 8,471 | 4,215,543 | GWIS |
National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.
Fire calendar
The peak usually comes in week 36 (around 6 September): that is the median of the week with the most burned area in each year since 2016.
Each cell is one week; the colour shows the area of the fires on record that started that week, in quartiles for this country. Tap a cell for details.
Hectares per week:
no fires
< 8,1468,146–31,59431,594–87,870≥ 87,870
When it burned: year by year, month by month
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 | 3k | 30k | 26k | 82k | 102k | 70k | 86k | 399,445 | San José 17,915 ha | |||||
| 2025 | 91k | 62k | 264k | 162k | 58k | 636,351 | San Ignacio 29,884 ha | |||||||
| 2024 | 11k | 13k | 5,089k | 2,107k | 1,472k | 976k | 252k | 9,920,748 | San Ignacio 4,468,196 ha | |||||
| 2023 | 30k | 34k | 159k | 244k | 451k | 996k | 22k | 1,936,003 | Concepción 49,878 ha | |||||
| 2022 | 7k | 17k | 64k | 64k | 983k | 806k | 49k | 143k | 2,133,752 | San Ignacio 128,905 ha | ||||
| 2021 | 16k | 27k | 837k | 514k | 902k | 195k | 14k | 2,504,082 | San Matías 739,980 ha | |||||
| 2020 | 8k | 12k | 164k | 459k | 934k | 492k | 138k | 11k | 2,218,395 | Urubichá 97,033 ha | ||||
| 2019 | 4k | 25k | 1,176k | 1,556k | 697k | 231k | 16k | 3,705,307 | San Rafael 528,947 ha | |||||
| 2018 | 4k | 50k | 159k | 256k | 24k | 492,408 | San Ignacio 36,165 ha | |||||||
| 2017 | 128k | 170k | 361k | 186k | 3k | 848,258 | San Ignacio 42,144 ha | |||||||
| 2016 | 43k | 357k | 567k | 230k | 152k | 23k | 1,370,701 | San Ramón 57,563 ha |
Hectares burned per year
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Largest recorded fires
By region
- Santa Cruz 17,494,546 ha · 849
- Beni 7,258,208 ha · 915
- La Paz 998,357 ha · 118
- Cochabamba 234,256 ha · 39
- Tarija 65,542 ha · 13
- Chuquisaca 39,145 ha · 7
- Pando 4,435 ha · 1
Municipalities that have burned most often in Bolivia
- 216×San Ignacio11 years · 3,779,969 ha
- 158×Exaltación11 years · 1,111,027 ha
- 114×Ixiamas11 years · 978,387 ha
- 108×San Matías11 years · 3,935,947 ha
- 104×San Ignacio10 years · 831,532 ha
Full ranking: by number of fires, area and share of the municipality →
Fires in 2026 · 70
- 17,915 haSan José24 July 2026 · 51 days
- 16,181 haSan IgnacioJuly 2026 · 20 days
- 12,949 haExaltación31 August 2026 · 7 days
- 11,888 haSan Ignacio25 August 2026 · 19 days
- 11,479 haMagdalena2 October 2026 · 8 days
- 10,309 haMagdalena 6 October 2026 · 16 days
- 10,291 haIxiamas9 October 2026 · 3 days
- 9,991 haExaltación26 September 2026 · 5 days
- 9,556 haAscención de GuarayosSeptember 2026 · 22 days
- 9,124 haEl Carmen Rivero TórrezJuly 2026 · 15 days
- 9,066 haExaltación14 September 2026 · 14 days
- 8,542 haSan LorenzoJuly 2026 · 5 days
- 8,167 haSan Rafael11 May 2026 · 7 days
- 7,418 haSan Rafael28 May 2026 · 8 days
- 7,417 haBauresAugust 2026 · 6 days
- 7,064 haSan José17 July 2026 · 64 days
- 6,681 haSan Rafael22 August 2026 · 15 days
- 6,059 haSan Rafael18 August 2026 · 19 days
- 6,031 haExaltación28 September 2026 · 2 days
- 5,990 haIxiamas3 October 2026 · 8 days
Fires in 2025 · 94
- 29,884 haSan Ignacio5 August 2025 · 15 days
- 21,879 haMagdalena8 October 2025 · 19 days
- 20,054 haPuerto Suárez8 November 2025 · 6 days
- 16,705 haSan Ignacio11 July 2025 · 22 days
- 16,138 haSan Javier29 September 2025 · 20 days
- 15,781 haConcepción4 October 2025 · 10 days
- 15,005 haSan Ignacio19 August 2025 · 3 days
- 14,911 haExaltación29 September 2025 · 28 days
- 14,845 haLoreto10 September 2025 · 8 days
- 13,324 haBauresAugust 2025 · 8 days
- 12,193 haLoreto5 September 2025 · 12 days
- 12,123 haPuerto Suárez9 November 2025 · 3 days
- 12,115 haAscención de Guarayos9 October 2025 · 18 days
- 11,166 haExaltación26 September 2025 · 20 days
- 10,854 haSan Ignacio10 July 2025 · 23 days
- 10,740 haSan José12 July 2025 · 21 days
- 10,594 haSan Ignacio14 September 2025 · 15 days
- 9,630 haSan Ignacio15 September 2025 · 14 days
- 9,397 haSan JoaquínSeptember 2025 · 5 days
- 9,206 haAscención de GuarayosJuly 2025 · 10 days
Fires in 2024 · 295
- 4,468,196 haSan Ignacio25 June 2024 · 124 days
- 1,152,740 haSan MatíasJuly 2024 · 109 days
- 551,706 haSan José18 July 2024 · 59 days
- 532,162 haSan Rafael26 June 2024 · 123 days
- 385,637 haSan Matías2 August 2024 · 69 days
- 134,466 haBaures10 August 2024 · 73 days
- 58,626 haPuerto Quijarro12 August 2024 · 34 days
- 53,976 haSan Matías18 September 2024 · 22 days
- 50,246 haRoboréJuly 2024 · 19 days
- 47,912 haPuerto Suárez17 September 2024 · 28 days
- 46,688 haExaltación10 August 2024 · 33 days
- 43,008 haSan Ignacio26 August 2024 · 20 days
- 38,330 haExaltación19 September 2024 · 25 days
- 36,765 haLoreto5 September 2024 · 34 days
- 35,821 haSan Miguel26 August 2024 · 21 days
- 35,674 haSan Ignacio29 September 2024 · 15 days
- 35,517 haConcepción12 August 2024 · 34 days
- 33,379 haSan Ignacio11 September 2024 · 22 days
- 32,913 haExaltación20 August 2024 · 19 days
- 32,085 haBaures12 August 2024 · 22 days
Fires in 2023 · 248
- 49,878 haConcepción5 November 2023 · 18 days
- 37,586 haVilla Tunari5 November 2023 · 14 days
- 37,064 haSan Ignacio9 November 2023 · 11 days
- 36,183 haSan Ignacio8 November 2023 · 12 days
- 30,869 haBaures24 October 2023 · 27 days
- 27,922 haHuacaraje29 September 2023 · 19 days
- 26,403 haBaures6 November 2023 · 14 days
- 25,485 haSan Matías8 November 2023 · 11 days
- 24,396 haIxiamas3 November 2023 · 17 days
- 24,219 haSan Ignacio4 November 2023 · 19 days
- 23,778 haUrubichá3 November 2023 · 17 days
- 23,271 haConcepción3 October 2023 · 22 days
- 23,209 haPuerto Menor de Rurrenabaque10 November 2023 · 12 days
- 23,067 haIxiamas24 August 2023 · 4 days
- 22,742 haUrubichá5 November 2023 · 16 days
- 22,013 haSan Matías13 November 2023 · 7 days
- 19,681 haHuacaraje8 October 2023 · 19 days
- 19,041 haSan RamónAugust 2023 · 8 days
- 18,889 haSan Ignacio5 November 2023 · 16 days
- 17,845 haSan Ignacio3 November 2023 · 16 days
Fires in 2022 · 222
- 128,905 haSan Ignacio22 August 2022 · 23 days
- 85,517 haSan Ramón22 August 2022 · 22 days
- 78,854 haSan Ramón24 August 2022 · 20 days
- 71,939 haSan Ignacio4 September 2022 · 23 days
- 66,365 haSan Ignacio29 August 2022 · 31 days
- 51,518 haSan Ignacio28 August 2022 · 14 days
- 46,026 haSan Joaquín31 August 2022 · 14 days
- 42,976 haConcepción26 August 2022 · 42 days
- 40,600 haHuacaraje25 August 2022 · 39 days
- 40,539 haUrubicháAugust 2022 · 38 days
- 39,373 haSan Javier31 August 2022 · 29 days
- 35,295 haMagdalena17 September 2022 · 21 days
- 32,069 haHuacaraje28 August 2022 · 32 days
- 28,944 haIxiamasSeptember 2022 · 12 days
- 23,380 haSan Ignacio16 September 2022 · 7 days
- 20,784 haSan Ignacio31 August 2022 · 28 days
- 20,606 haSan Ramón27 August 2022 · 18 days
- 19,908 haSanta Rosa27 August 2022 · 15 days
- 19,774 haSanta Ana16 September 2022 · 13 days
- 17,271 haUrubichá15 September 2022 · 14 days
Fires in 2021 · 155
- 739,980 haSan Matías25 July 2021 · 92 days
- 162,737 haRoboré17 August 2021 · 8 days
- 96,969 haSan Ignacio1 September 2021 · 41 days
- 91,655 haSan Ignacio5 August 2021 · 68 days
- 76,754 haConcepción13 September 2021 · 42 days
- 58,499 haConcepción13 September 2021 · 29 days
- 58,198 haSan Matías20 August 2021 · 43 days
- 46,253 haSan Ramón18 September 2021 · 28 days
- 39,533 haSan Matías10 September 2021 · 15 days
- 38,531 haSan José19 August 2021 · 6 days
- 36,379 haSan Matías1 September 2021 · 40 days
- 36,282 haHuacaraje15 September 2021 · 19 days
- 26,714 haSan José17 August 2021 · 8 days
- 25,480 haMagdalena19 September 2021 · 16 days
- 23,784 haMagdalena16 September 2021 · 19 days
- 23,756 haLoreto25 September 2021 · 14 days
- 22,233 haPuerto Suárez17 September 2021 · 20 days
- 21,436 haSan Matías19 July 2021 · 40 days
- 21,062 haSan Ignacio30 September 2021 · 18 days
- 19,894 haIxiamas22 September 2021 · 20 days
Fires in 2020 · 211
- 97,033 haUrubicháSeptember 2020 · 35 days
- 87,559 haSan Joaquín17 August 2020 · 39 days
- 85,746 haConcepción2 October 2020 · 38 days
- 65,508 haSan Joaquín23 August 2020 · 39 days
- 61,164 haPostrervalleSeptember 2020 · 29 days
- 56,339 haPuerto QuijarroJuly 2020 · 14 days
- 51,964 haSan Ignacio8 September 2020 · 25 days
- 51,662 haSan Matías23 September 2020 · 21 days
- 48,633 haConcepción22 August 2020 · 54 days
- 42,465 haSan RafaelAugust 2020 · 52 days
- 41,498 haSan Ignacio3 September 2020 · 46 days
- 40,736 haPuerto Suárez22 July 2020 · 8 days
- 33,230 haConcepción10 September 2020 · 36 days
- 31,905 haSan Matías5 September 2020 · 37 days
- 30,494 haMagdalena28 September 2020 · 23 days
- 28,090 haSan Ramón13 August 2020 · 18 days
- 26,311 haSan Ignacio24 September 2020 · 21 days
- 23,555 haSan Ignacio14 September 2020 · 6 days
- 23,477 haIxiamas4 October 2020 · 10 days
- 23,398 haSan Matías30 August 2020 · 15 days
Fires in 2019 · 219
- 528,947 haSan Rafael28 July 2019 · 66 days
- 221,128 haConcepción6 August 2019 · 60 days
- 151,379 haSan Ignacio27 July 2019 · 68 days
- 151,193 haPuerto Suárez19 August 2019 · 8 days
- 118,366 haSan Matías6 August 2019 · 50 days
- 118,102 haSan MiguelJuly 2019 · 66 days
- 101,939 haSan Matías27 August 2019 · 29 days
- 101,140 haSan Ramón31 July 2019 · 26 days
- 73,444 haRoboré7 August 2019 · 19 days
- 68,525 haPuerto Suárez29 August 2019 · 34 days
- 63,598 haSan Ignacio27 July 2019 · 31 days
- 62,996 haEl Carmen Rivero Tórrez3 August 2019 · 24 days
- 62,329 haSan Ignacio13 August 2019 · 35 days
- 61,441 haConcepción28 August 2019 · 38 days
- 58,084 haEl Carmen Rivero Tórrez30 July 2019 · 27 days
- 56,523 haSan Ignacio28 August 2019 · 33 days
- 55,441 haSan José27 August 2019 · 16 days
- 50,547 haSan RafaelAugust 2019 · 25 days
- 49,382 haCharagua5 September 2019 · 20 days
- 44,634 haSan Ignacio25 July 2019 · 28 days
Fires in 2018 · 80
- 36,165 haSan Ignacio30 August 2018 · 17 days
- 23,008 haSan José24 August 2018 · 21 days
- 21,134 haSan MiguelSeptember 2018 · 22 days
- 20,517 haSan Ignacio18 September 2018 · 10 days
- 17,236 haExaltaciónOctober 2018 · 13 days
- 12,522 haSan José22 August 2018 · 24 days
- 12,161 haBaures3 September 2018 · 13 days
- 11,579 haSan Ramón24 August 2018 · 8 days
- 10,555 haVilla TunariSeptember 2018 · 8 days
- 9,613 haSan Ignacio3 September 2018 · 12 days
- 9,323 haHuacaraje7 September 2018 · 8 days
- 9,141 haHuacaraje7 September 2018 · 5 days
- 7,987 haSanta AnaSeptember 2018 · 9 days
- 7,516 haIxiamas28 September 2018 · 12 days
- 7,466 haSan Ignacio5 September 2018 · 9 days
- 7,222 haSan Ignacio19 September 2018 · 9 days
- 6,984 haSan José18 July 2018 · 17 days
- 6,858 haSan RamónJuly 2018 · 6 days
- 6,747 haSan Ramón22 August 2018 · 7 days
- 5,892 haSan José24 July 2018 · 9 days
Fires in 2017 · 123
- 42,144 haSan Ignacio3 September 2017 · 21 days
- 25,140 haSan MiguelAugust 2017 · 32 days
- 23,880 haPuerto Suárez8 September 2017 · 7 days
- 23,847 haSan Ramón29 July 2017 · 16 days
- 23,072 haExaltación17 September 2017 · 5 days
- 22,697 haIxiamas2 October 2017 · 9 days
- 20,073 haSan JoaquínOctober 2017 · 7 days
- 18,329 haSan JoséOctober 2017 · 8 days
- 15,989 haSan Ramón25 July 2017 · 20 days
- 15,776 haSan Ramón2 August 2017 · 10 days
- 15,191 haSan Ignacio6 September 2017 · 19 days
- 14,838 haPuerto Suárez2 September 2017 · 14 days
- 14,211 haIxiamas16 September 2017 · 8 days
- 12,231 haSan Ignacio10 July 2017 · 29 days
- 11,108 haExaltación18 September 2017 · 9 days
- 10,500 haSan LorenzoAugust 2017 · 5 days
- 9,626 haIxiamas6 September 2017 · 5 days
- 9,620 haPuerto SuárezJuly 2017 · 10 days
- 9,580 haExaltación29 July 2017 · 15 days
- 9,571 haBaures15 October 2017 · 4 days
Fires in 2016 · 187
- 57,563 haSan Ramón25 July 2016 · 15 days
- 43,344 haIxiamas15 July 2016 · 26 days
- 38,906 haSanta Rosa12 August 2016 · 17 days
- 34,314 haEl Puente14 August 2016 · 15 days
- 33,474 haSan José12 June 2016 · 49 days
- 27,782 haSan Joaquín12 August 2016 · 22 days
- 26,964 haSan Ignacio10 August 2016 · 18 days
- 24,744 haIxiamas10 September 2016 · 7 days
- 24,134 haSan José30 July 2016 · 8 days
- 20,481 haSan Ignacio19 August 2016 · 9 days
- 20,114 haSan Ramón31 July 2016 · 10 days
- 19,408 haIxiamas6 September 2016 · 12 days
- 17,770 haIxiamas13 August 2016 · 16 days
- 16,390 haSan Ramón21 July 2016 · 13 days
- 15,983 haPuerto SuárezDecember 2016 · 17 days
- 15,914 haSan Antonio de Lomerío23 July 2016 · 17 days
- 13,467 haPailónSeptember 2016 · 10 days
- 13,252 haSan Ramón23 August 2016 · 6 days
- 13,171 haLoreto6 September 2016 · 6 days
- 12,900 haEl Puente17 August 2016 · 12 days
Frequently asked questions
- How much land burns in Bolivia in an average year?
- According to Copernicus GWIS estimates, an average of 7,584,783 hectares burn in Bolivia each year (2016–2025 average).
- What was the worst wildfire year in Bolivia?
- The worst year in Bolivia since 2016 was 2024, with 16,484,715 hectares burned according to Copernicus GWIS.
- What is the largest wildfire recorded in Bolivia?
- Largest fire recorded by WorldFires in Bolivia since 2016: San Ignacio fire, 25 June 2024, with 4,468,196 hectares burned — perimeter rebuilt from heat detections (Copernicus GWIS).
- When is wildfire season in Bolivia?
- In Bolivia, 65% of the area burned in fires with a WorldFires page since 2016 burned in July–September; the month with the most burned area: August.
- How many wildfires has Bolivia had in 2026?
- Fires counted by Copernicus GWIS in Bolivia so far in 2026 (up to week 42): 3,963, against an average of 12,625 per full year in 2016–2025. Bolivia is running below the usual for this point in the year, at 26 % of the average: 1,427,535 hectares burned up to week 42, against an average of 5,420,829 in 2012–2025 (Copernicus GWIS). No year between 2012 and 2025 had burned this little by now.
- Which regions of Bolivia burn the most?
- Regions of Bolivia with the most area burned in fires with a WorldFires page since 2016: Santa Cruz (17,494,546 ha), Beni (7,258,208 ha), La Paz (998,357 ha).