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Wildfires in Finland
4 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2021, adding up to 2,285 hectares burned across 4 municipalities.
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.
The official record
2006–2026Yearly average 2017–2025567 ha
Worst year2021 2,558 ha
With a page here4 since 2021
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 66 | EFFIS |
| 2025 | 9 | 407 | EFFIS |
| 2024 | 3 | 124 | EFFIS |
| 2023 | 4 | 205 | EFFIS |
| 2022 | 3 | 160 | EFFIS |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,558 | EFFIS |
| 2020 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2019 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2018 | 7 | 303 | EFFIS |
| 2017 | 3 | 210 | EFFIS |
| 2016 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2015 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2014 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2013 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2012 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2011 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2010 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2009 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2008 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2007 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2006 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Lapland 2,052 ha · 3
- Northern Ostrobothnia 232 ha · 1