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Wildfires in Guatemala

292 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 489,543 hectares burned across 99 municipalities.

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

Guatemala, at this point in the year: 177,617 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 509,409.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025488,531 ha

Worst year2024 684,285 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	761	177,617	GWIS
2025	802	192,690	GWIS
2024	2,047	684,285	GWIS
2023	1,946	513,776	GWIS
2022	1,764	392,235	GWIS
2021	1,363	321,297	GWIS
2020	2,216	623,561	GWIS
2019	2,386	609,681	GWIS
2018	1,349	305,910	GWIS
2017	2,222	583,884	GWIS
2016	2,498	657,992	GWIS
2015	2,300	595,304	GWIS
2014	1,721	416,700	GWIS
2013	3,479	942,269	GWIS
2012	2,092	541,695	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.