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Wildfires in Chad

1,718 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 6,280,518 hectares burned across 50 departments.

Only fires of 2,000 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Chad, at this point in the year: 1,390,515 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 2,005,377.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,863,003 ha

Worst year2016 7,021,885 ha

With a page here1,718 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	3,797	1,403,159	GWIS
2025	8,593	3,249,677	GWIS
2024	8,768	3,452,454	GWIS
2023	12,317	4,785,726	GWIS
2022	11,125	4,134,877	GWIS
2021	17,029	6,422,862	GWIS
2020	15,531	5,883,362	GWIS
2019	12,671	4,986,836	GWIS
2018	9,120	3,168,123	GWIS
2017	14,065	5,524,230	GWIS
2016	17,694	7,021,885	GWIS
2015	13,732	5,268,240	GWIS
2014	13,837	5,159,640	GWIS
2013	16,209	6,244,165	GWIS
2012	15,497	6,311,930	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	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	311k	233k	38k	8k	10k	6k	5k		72k			683,399	Barh-Signaka 40,862 ha
2025	80k	39k	17k	14k				12k	266k	324k	376k	1,127,803	Lac Iro 28,856 ha
2024	98k	9k	15k	6k	2k				11k	44k	60k	246,421	Barh-Signaka 27,333 ha
2023	47k	53k		4k					64k	43k	127k	338,053	Barh-Signaka 8,624 ha
2022	86k	46k	29k	3k	2k	5k			69k	75k	48k	362,697	Barh-Signaka 19,132 ha
2021	126k	125k	19k		3k				85k	170k	155k	683,425	Barh-Signaka 19,066 ha
2020	109k	103k	39k	10k		8k		3k	94k	157k	87k	609,958	Barh-Signaka 25,125 ha
2019	127k	22k	32k	22k		11k	14k		17k	112k	194k	553,522	Djourf Al Ahmar 22,746 ha
2018	44k		29k	8k			2k		78k	8k	83k	252,806	Kaya 23,249 ha
2017	106k	28k	8k	8k			3k	5k	113k	152k	194k	617,279	Fouli 42,926 ha
2016	154k	27k	14k		3k	5k	3k	61k	76k	241k	222k	805,155	Kaya 57,635 ha