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Wildfires in Bosnia & Herzegovina

914 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 501,119 hectares burned across 96 municipalities.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

These figures leave out 6 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The official record

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–202546,861 ha

Worst year2020 100,107 ha

With a page here914 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	257	80,645	EFFIS
2025	135	38,112	EFFIS
2024	178	43,571	EFFIS
2023	24	3,211	EFFIS
2022	324	72,899	EFFIS
2021	178	61,628	EFFIS
2020	340	100,107	EFFIS
2019	132	28,634	EFFIS
2018	11	3,113	EFFIS
2017	142	82,852	EFFIS
2016	88	34,485	EFFIS
2015	25	14,989	EFFIS
2014	5	3,203	EFFIS
2013	9	3,459	EFFIS
2012	139	87,688	EFFIS
2011	40	23,397	EFFIS
2010	9	3,349	EFFIS
2009	1	181	EFFIS
2008	23	6,964	EFFIS
2007	63	56,706	EFFIS
2006	0	—	EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026		4k	4k	2k	130	2k	2k	38k	20k	109		71,548	Kupres (BiH) 13,227 ha
2025		2k	9k	225		608	9k	9k		2k	3k	34,315	Trebinje 5,832 ha
2024	10k	8k	5k	2k			3k	7k	3k			38,649	Kalinovik 3,843 ha
2023		112	1k								945	2,158	Prozor-Rama 945 ha
2022	461	586	54k	276			5k	3k		785		64,028	Bileća 4,594 ha
2021		7k	10k	397	126	714	7k	28k	2k	523		57,100	Neum 10,484 ha
2020	7k	8k	19k	55k			1k		469			91,039	Bosansko Grahovo 8,212 ha
2019	192	6k	15k	779		590	111	1k		881		24,829	Bosansko Grahovo 2,662 ha
2018				880				1k	567	160		2,874	Livno 880 ha
2017		3k	12k	3k		3k	18k	41k		2k		80,791	Ravno 9,438 ha
2016			2k	4k			479	2k	2k	1k	23k	33,788	Prozor-Rama 2,763 ha