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Wildfires in Germany

49 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 14,871 hectares burned across 21 districts.

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

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–20251,800 ha

Worst year2025 5,475 ha

With a page here49 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	31	3,277	EFFIS
2025	38	5,475	EFFIS
2024	9	826	EFFIS
2023	7	975	EFFIS
2022	32	4,293	EFFIS
2021	3	121	EFFIS
2020	6	314	EFFIS
2019	12	2,006	EFFIS
2018	33	3,622	EFFIS
2017	1	57	EFFIS
2016	3	314	EFFIS
2015	2	105	EFFIS
2014	0	—	EFFIS
2013	1	133	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.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.