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Wildfires in Ghana

1,254 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 5,662,844 hectares burned across 106 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

Ghana, at this point in the year: 1,764,975 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 2,003,111.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,383,026 ha

Worst year2020 6,134,071 ha

With a page here1,254 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	4,243	1,764,975	GWIS
2025	5,836	2,175,729	GWIS
2024	9,605	4,061,194	GWIS
2023	9,553	3,575,850	GWIS
2022	12,931	5,028,210	GWIS
2021	11,335	4,097,111	GWIS
2020	16,345	6,134,071	GWIS
2019	12,611	4,826,248	GWIS
2018	8,638	3,283,337	GWIS
2017	15,251	5,708,640	GWIS
2016	13,052	4,939,870	GWIS
2015	15,058	5,573,473	GWIS
2014	13,668	5,035,655	GWIS
2013	14,942	5,375,648	GWIS
2012	9,652	3,556,191	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	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	905k	17k				921,905	Sene East 82,216 ha
2025	115k	16k		68k	577k	775,489	Sene West 118,987 ha
2024	235k	18k		11k	317k	579,817	Sene East 99,561 ha
2023	67k	3k			184k	254,291	West Gonja 16,132 ha
2022	278k	9k		16k	297k	599,594	Sekyere Afram Plains North 118,389 ha
2021	72k	3k		10k	179k	263,183	Sissala East 13,163 ha
2020	309k	80k		19k	172k	580,358	Sene East 127,027 ha
2019	210k	22k	2k	3k	249k	487,397	Sene West 60,024 ha
2018	65k				124k	188,713	Sene East 13,788 ha
2017	171k	31k		113k	214k	529,734	Sene East 89,521 ha
2016	295k	42k		16k	129k	482,363	Sunyani West 26,650 ha