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Wildfires in Equatorial Guinea

A single fire over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2024, which burned 1,180 hectares across 4 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

Equatorial Guinea, at this point in the year: 960 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 3,420.

0 4k 9k Jan Apr Jul Oct Dec
2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

The GWIS yearly series

2012–2026
Yearly average 2016–20252,966 ha
Worst year2023 3,977 ha
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›See the year-by-year table
Year Fires hectares Source
20267 960 GWIS
202512 2,461 GWIS
202412 3,624 GWIS
202319 3,977 GWIS
202218 3,266 GWIS
202115 3,408 GWIS
202017 3,933 GWIS
201914 3,347 GWIS
20188 1,589 GWIS
20177 1,440 GWIS
201615 2,620 GWIS
201539 8,860 GWIS
201431 4,823 GWIS
201315 3,917 GWIS
20127 1,393 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecΣLargest of the year
2024
1k
1,180 Malabo 1,180 ha

Hectares burned per year

Largest recorded fires

By region

  1. Bioko Norte 863 ha · 1
  2. Bioko Sur 325 ha · 1

Fires in 2024 · 1