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Wildfires in Guinea

1,448 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 5,050,620 hectares burned across 222 sub-prefectures.

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

Guinea, at this point in the year: 3,253,360 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 5,399,289.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20256,161,737 ha

Worst year2016 7,784,477 ha

With a page here1,448 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	10,118	3,253,908	GWIS
2025	10,089	3,145,394	GWIS
2024	16,023	5,345,472	GWIS
2023	18,880	5,783,451	GWIS
2022	21,109	6,477,262	GWIS
2021	19,321	6,048,855	GWIS
2020	22,662	7,102,922	GWIS
2019	22,408	7,212,456	GWIS
2018	14,990	4,977,212	GWIS
2017	23,281	7,739,869	GWIS
2016	23,244	7,784,477	GWIS
2015	22,384	7,392,340	GWIS
2014	24,329	8,301,710	GWIS
2013	23,778	7,632,137	GWIS
2012	18,797	6,377,020	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	Apr	May	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	337k	331k	47k	221k	60k			996,824	Albadariah 72,176 ha
2025	42k	30k	16k	31k	35k	5k	42k	201,626	Manfran 11,242 ha
2024	112k	88k	31k	91k	17k		18k	357,004	Missira 8,062 ha
2023	38k	93k	14k	51k	16k		6k	217,295	Banfélé 7,626 ha
2022	169k	70k	52k	17k	48k		11k	367,595	Manfran 40,177 ha
2021	158k	80k	39k	95k	12k		9k	392,638	Manfran 26,206 ha
2020	140k	138k	57k	37k	35k	2k	6k	416,295	Manfran 19,542 ha
2019	29k	165k	68k	91k	53k		12k	418,368	Manfran 26,689 ha
2018	153k	2k	46k	148k	33k		9k	392,082	Douako 22,404 ha
2017	143k	92k	73k	343k	5k	2k	22k	680,099	Manfran 70,029 ha
2016	195k	74k	28k	277k	24k		13k	610,794	Firawa 25,026 ha