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Wildfires in Ethiopia

1,963 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 9,057,276 hectares burned across 142 districts.

Only fires of 2,000 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

Ethiopia, at this point in the year: 2,024,981 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 4,102,597.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,949,516 ha

Worst year2016 7,205,983 ha

With a page here1,963 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	5,477	2,029,007	GWIS
2025	8,466	3,224,819	GWIS
2024	8,675	3,269,977	GWIS
2023	11,221	4,036,276	GWIS
2022	12,294	4,683,634	GWIS
2021	16,271	6,527,572	GWIS
2020	15,311	5,692,262	GWIS
2019	12,752	5,244,939	GWIS
2018	9,302	3,428,248	GWIS
2017	14,378	6,181,455	GWIS
2016	17,149	7,205,983	GWIS
2015	17,519	7,501,621	GWIS
2014	14,655	6,224,748	GWIS
2013	16,787	7,044,024	GWIS
2012	14,199	6,041,984	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	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	252k	439k	79k	31k	15k	26k	2k	34k	12k	13k			903,597	Dangura 92,220 ha
2025	81k	225k	63k	13k						8k	26k	135k	551,181	Dangura 39,575 ha
2024	25k	154k	68k	16k	12k			4k	2k		5k	61k	347,896	Mandura 55,089 ha
2023	82k	162k	45k	26k	5k	6k					27k	31k	383,313	Dima 18,648 ha
2022	457k	140k	143k								2k	31k	773,791	Jore 201,499 ha
2021	401k	333k	205k	80k	20k	2k					93k	120k	1,254,386	Dima 102,019 ha
2020	252k	212k	94k	30k	2k					6k	104k	134k	833,495	Dangura 125,093 ha
2019	593k	143k	116k	10k						3k	28k	76k	969,719	Dima 26,386 ha
2018	128k	3k	139k	18k				3k	8k	3k		136k	437,817	Dangura 55,315 ha
2017	548k	183k	76k			2k					100k	218k	1,127,266	Dangura 39,054 ha
2016	325k	387k	102k	32k				2k	7k		162k	457k	1,474,815	Dangura 89,959 ha