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Wildfires in Gabon

137 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 203,608 hectares burned across 12 departments.

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

Gabon, at this point in the year: 144,841 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 193,123.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025191,867 ha

Worst year2016 214,136 ha

With a page here137 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	548	144,841	GWIS
2025	526	158,728	GWIS
2024	644	206,303	GWIS
2023	607	181,449	GWIS
2022	741	206,583	GWIS
2021	566	155,219	GWIS
2020	780	210,843	GWIS
2019	719	204,174	GWIS
2018	679	192,216	GWIS
2017	639	189,020	GWIS
2016	740	214,136	GWIS
2015	668	189,994	GWIS
2014	589	176,516	GWIS
2013	836	249,626	GWIS
2012	753	244,038	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.