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Wildfires in Egypt
2 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2022, adding up to 5,541 hectares burned across 3 districts.
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 GWISEgypt, at this point in the year: 6,933 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 14,443.
2026
average 2012–2025
lowest and highest
The GWIS yearly series
2012–2026Yearly average 2016–202515,852 ha
Worst year2016 23,769 ha
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34 | 6,933 | GWIS |
| 2025 | 23 | 4,681 | GWIS |
| 2024 | 64 | 13,469 | GWIS |
| 2023 | 107 | 21,386 | GWIS |
| 2022 | 106 | 23,375 | GWIS |
| 2021 | 124 | 17,172 | GWIS |
| 2020 | 75 | 14,452 | GWIS |
| 2019 | 51 | 9,117 | GWIS |
| 2018 | 60 | 11,328 | GWIS |
| 2017 | 135 | 19,769 | GWIS |
| 2016 | 125 | 23,769 | GWIS |
| 2015 | 76 | 14,633 | GWIS |
| 2014 | 105 | 17,366 | GWIS |
| 2013 | 117 | 21,482 | GWIS |
| 2012 | 68 | 12,316 | GWIS |
National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- North Sinai 4,180 ha · 1
- Beheira 1,181 ha · 1
- Matrouh 205 ha · 1