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Wildfires in Guyana

130 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 278,051 hectares burned across 9 regions.

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

Guyana, at this point in the year: 102,589 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 123,357.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025171,694 ha

Worst year2024 499,001 ha

With a page here130 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	399	105,325	GWIS
2025	334	94,519	GWIS
2024	1,277	499,001	GWIS
2023	1,101	297,047	GWIS
2022	202	46,300	GWIS
2021	205	45,378	GWIS
2020	667	163,908	GWIS
2019	625	167,517	GWIS
2018	641	115,821	GWIS
2017	413	105,222	GWIS
2016	617	182,230	GWIS
2015	832	220,745	GWIS
2014	549	134,462	GWIS
2013	415	104,462	GWIS
2012	479	125,277	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.