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Wildfires in Latvia
7 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2018, adding up to 2,944 hectares burned across 6 parishes.
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
2006–2026Yearly average 2017–2025451 ha
Worst year2018 2,493 ha
With a page here7 since 2018
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 318 | EFFIS |
| 2025 | 1 | 30 | EFFIS |
| 2024 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2023 | 2 | 127 | EFFIS |
| 2022 | 2 | 171 | EFFIS |
| 2021 | 2 | 251 | EFFIS |
| 2020 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2019 | 1 | 49 | EFFIS |
| 2018 | 6 | 2,493 | EFFIS |
| 2017 | 1 | 35 | EFFIS |
| 2016 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2015 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2014 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2013 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2012 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2011 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2010 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2009 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2008 | 1 | 65 | EFFIS |
| 2007 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2006 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Σ | Largest of the year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 150 | 168 | 318 | Ādažu pag. 168 ha | ||||||||||
| 2022 | 113 | 113 | Ādažu pag. 113 ha | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 163 | 163 | Lēdurgas pag. 163 ha | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 614 | 2k | 2,350 | Valdgales pag. 1,483 ha |
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Talsu novads 1,282 ha · 1
- Saulkrastu novads 611 ha · 1
- Ādažu novads 430 ha · 3
- Valmieras novads 252 ha · 1
- Ventspils novads 196 ha · 1
- Siguldas novads 162 ha · 1