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Wildfires in Chile

445 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 1,861,578 hectares burned across 169 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.

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

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Chile, at this point in the year: 311,979 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 360,942.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025416,316 ha

Worst year2017 900,241 ha

With a page here445 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	959	311,979	GWIS
2025	873	271,955	GWIS
2024	776	230,791	GWIS
2023	1,176	737,668	GWIS
2022	1,248	408,987	GWIS
2021	1,146	298,018	GWIS
2020	1,229	353,723	GWIS
2019	1,176	341,837	GWIS
2018	1,256	279,055	GWIS
2017	1,455	900,241	GWIS
2016	1,276	340,882	GWIS
2015	1,675	512,733	GWIS
2014	1,120	327,965	GWIS
2013	1,253	290,930	GWIS
2012	1,090	276,117	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	67k	14k	92k	10k	4k	3k						189,764	Concepción 27,577 ha
2025	4k	24k	35k	4k	2k	1k				1k	9k	80,727	Traiguén 12,385 ha
2024	15k	19k	3k	1k			2k				2k	41,585	Valparaíso 7,053 ha
2023	29k	443k	8k	4k					1k		8k	492,695	Nacimiento 111,272 ha
2022	8k	61k	20k		1k			2k	7k		46k	144,908	Lampa 14,001 ha
2021	18k	3k	4k	1k	1k			2k			25k	54,072	Los Sauces 13,252 ha
2020	17k	47k	15k	5k	4k					3k	1k	91,970	Molina 22,679 ha
2019	8k	51k	14k	5k	1k		1k	1k		8k	7k	94,955	Cochrane 15,386 ha
2018	4k		3k	1k	4k	1k					1k	13,414	Ercilla 2,480 ha
2017	565k	8k	19k							1k		593,169	San Javier 192,854 ha
2016	1k	6k	7k	2k	1k					17k	30k	64,319	Paredones 9,277 ha