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Wildfires in Liberia

399 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 733,453 hectares burned across 61 districts.

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

Liberia, at this point in the year: 170,428 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 608,248.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025526,456 ha

Worst year2019 875,698 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	754	170,428	GWIS
2025	1,271	323,316	GWIS
2024	1,468	363,642	GWIS
2023	2,141	539,318	GWIS
2022	2,549	608,190	GWIS
2021	1,591	359,443	GWIS
2020	2,169	545,970	GWIS
2019	3,216	875,698	GWIS
2018	1,423	367,090	GWIS
2017	2,406	646,102	GWIS
2016	2,520	635,794	GWIS
2015	4,739	1,388,390	GWIS
2014	2,440	677,051	GWIS
2013	1,583	415,402	GWIS
2012	2,901	790,152	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.