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Wildfires in Burundi

34 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 47,543 hectares burned across 18 communes.

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

Burundi, at this point in the year: 18,358 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 57,408.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202548,233 ha

Worst year2016 98,272 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	203	18,358	GWIS
2025	265	23,551	GWIS
2024	454	45,361	GWIS
2023	297	35,647	GWIS
2022	370	42,655	GWIS
2021	351	38,820	GWIS
2020	596	65,028	GWIS
2019	485	52,200	GWIS
2018	275	32,679	GWIS
2017	485	48,121	GWIS
2016	1,086	98,272	GWIS
2015	1,362	121,574	GWIS
2014	536	53,703	GWIS
2013	961	96,080	GWIS
2012	593	57,098	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.