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Wildfires in Cameroon

2,899 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 5,860,979 hectares burned across 130 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

Cameroon, at this point in the year: 1,456,044 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 2,200,764.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20253,510,013 ha

Worst year2020 4,433,793 ha

With a page here2,899 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	4,397	1,456,863	GWIS
2025	8,224	2,789,824	GWIS
2024	8,145	2,565,989	GWIS
2023	11,401	3,725,648	GWIS
2022	12,579	3,644,997	GWIS
2021	13,953	4,295,589	GWIS
2020	14,999	4,433,793	GWIS
2019	11,232	3,404,417	GWIS
2018	7,602	2,191,879	GWIS
2017	12,806	4,025,599	GWIS
2016	12,917	4,022,396	GWIS
2015	11,071	3,325,774	GWIS
2014	10,934	3,360,632	GWIS
2013	10,604	3,360,885	GWIS
2012	10,386	3,221,456	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	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	346k	521k	60k	7k	11k	8k		38k			990,795	Ngambé-Tikar 120,811 ha
2025	132k	194k	29k	7k	1k	2k		8k	186k	384k	942,800	Poli 52,850 ha
2024	79k	90k	37k	5k	6k				24k	91k	331,805	Ngambé-Tikar 11,174 ha
2023	81k	383k	10k	7k	1k			6k	9k	138k	634,740	Bétaré-Oya 61,801 ha
2022	63k	122k	26k		11k				43k	100k	365,043	Ngambé-Tikar 11,573 ha
2021	139k	176k	34k	4k	5k		1k	3k	59k	154k	574,481	Bétaré-Oya 34,199 ha
2020	160k	128k	26k	6k	3k	4k		5k	31k	107k	469,358	Ngambé-Tikar 22,996 ha
2019	70k	104k	10k			2k		2k	20k	150k	357,296	Bétaré-Oya 11,932 ha
2018	74k		9k	2k		2k		1k	1k	60k	147,990	Kentzou 4,397 ha
2017	100k	182k	23k	4k	1k	2k	4k	15k	50k	146k	526,834	Tcholliré 22,166 ha
2016	141k	91k	6k	5k	1k	5k		7k	51k	213k	519,837	Poli 26,671 ha