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Wildfires in Cuba

295 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 496,417 hectares burned across 90 municipalities.

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

Cuba, at this point in the year: 224,061 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 426,548.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025463,820 ha

Worst year2020 792,314 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	772	224,061	GWIS
2025	1,763	508,072	GWIS
2024	1,492	427,472	GWIS
2023	2,706	750,752	GWIS
2022	1,549	385,678	GWIS
2021	1,929	520,705	GWIS
2020	2,868	792,314	GWIS
2019	1,243	292,789	GWIS
2018	694	168,579	GWIS
2017	1,950	523,564	GWIS
2016	1,117	268,273	GWIS
2015	2,084	544,434	GWIS
2014	1,187	291,063	GWIS
2013	1,681	427,651	GWIS
2012	1,375	349,973	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	Aug	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026		13k	12k	21k		3k	5k	24k			78,816	Minas de Matahambre 11,682 ha
2025	3k	8k	13k	23k	3k		1k				51,149	San Juan y Martínez 15,236 ha
2024		7k	8k	16k	14k		1k	3k			48,489	Guane 3,822 ha
2023	13k	37k	18k	11k	1k		1k			1k	82,806	Mayarí 14,928 ha
2022			11k	6k						2k	18,843	Esmeralda 2,748 ha
2021	1k	3k	13k	37k	4k						58,402	Esmeralda 4,592 ha
2020	4k	16k	19k	37k	2k	1k					78,447	Camagüey 4,070 ha
2019		5k	2k			1k			1k	1k	9,551	Esmeralda 2,155 ha
2018			5k				3k				7,569	Guane 3,353 ha
2017	3k	11k	11k	24k							48,597	Mayarí 8,389 ha
2016		3k	2k	5k			1k	1k	1k		13,748	Camagüey 1,833 ha