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Wildfires in Israel

94 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 29,784 hectares burned across 13 subdistricts.

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.

The official record

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–20253,273 ha

Worst year2024 16,004 ha

With a page here94 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	9	1,680	EFFIS
2025	15	3,331	EFFIS
2024	89	16,004	EFFIS
2023	4	651	EFFIS
2022	2	218	EFFIS
2021	23	4,972	EFFIS
2020	14	3,549	EFFIS
2019	11	1,856	EFFIS
2018	4	345	EFFIS
2017	3	785	EFFIS
2016	4	1,023	EFFIS
2015	6	3,837	EFFIS
2014	1	486	EFFIS
2013	4	2,852	EFFIS
2012	0	—	EFFIS
2011	0	—	EFFIS
2010	1	3,013	EFFIS
2009	9	5,324	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.