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Wildfires in Ireland

31 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 14,466 hectares burned across 52 local electoral areas.

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.

These figures leave out 55 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

The official record

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–20253,212 ha

Worst year2017 7,219 ha

With a page here31 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	18	2,953	EFFIS
2025	31	4,355	EFFIS
2024	3	133	EFFIS
2023	30	4,302	EFFIS
2022	21	2,982	EFFIS
2021	18	3,189	EFFIS
2020	29	3,103	EFFIS
2019	20	2,820	EFFIS
2018	28	2,840	EFFIS
2017	17	7,219	EFFIS
2016	6	1,177	EFFIS
2015	27	6,807	EFFIS
2014	1	141	EFFIS
2013	10	8,211	EFFIS
2012	0	—	EFFIS
2011	16	16,724	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.

	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Σ	Largest of the year
2026				2k	1,990	CLONMEL LEA-6 1,450 ha
2025		914			914	KENMARE LEA-6 808 ha
2021	2k				1,799	KILLARNEY LEA-7 1,799 ha
2020		1k			1,079	LOUGHREA LEA-5 367 ha
2018			803	586	1,389	BORRIS-IN-OSSORY -MOUNTMELLICK LEA-6 459 ha
2017		7k			6,548	CONAMARA SOUTH LEA-5 3,865 ha
2016		747			747	CONAMARA NORTH LEA-4 614 ha