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Wildfires in Eritrea

43 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2019, adding up to 84,074 hectares burned across 5 subzones.

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

Eritrea, at this point in the year: 10,627 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 12,814.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202519,962 ha

Worst year2020 61,079 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	35	10,627	GWIS
2025	76	28,990	GWIS
2024	13	6,057	GWIS
2023	44	18,367	GWIS
2022	63	22,059	GWIS
2021	95	29,796	GWIS
2020	113	61,079	GWIS
2019	39	21,660	GWIS
2018	19	5,197	GWIS
2017	9	2,675	GWIS
2016	16	3,741	GWIS
2015	23	7,575	GWIS
2014	24	9,143	GWIS
2013	28	9,881	GWIS
2012	32	8,894	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.