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Wildfires in Ecuador

142 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 373,721 hectares burned across 73 cantons.

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

Ecuador, at this point in the year: 57,996 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 88,800.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025222,481 ha

Worst year2016 336,910 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	281	57,996	GWIS
2025	602	132,793	GWIS
2024	1,111	300,879	GWIS
2023	385	93,114	GWIS
2022	1,157	304,119	GWIS
2021	777	155,667	GWIS
2020	1,531	335,196	GWIS
2019	808	249,565	GWIS
2018	982	183,213	GWIS
2017	641	133,350	GWIS
2016	1,553	336,910	GWIS
2015	610	161,009	GWIS
2014	766	153,318	GWIS
2013	1,116	232,540	GWIS
2012	1,155	271,812	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.