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Wildfires in Mali

862 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 3,011,623 hectares burned across 226 communes.

Only fires of 2,000 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Mali, at this point in the year: 1,585,598 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 1,714,570.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20253,550,947 ha

Worst year2021 4,115,580 ha

With a page here862 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	4,866	1,596,007	GWIS
2025	9,646	3,423,602	GWIS
2024	9,798	3,641,285	GWIS
2023	12,484	4,080,808	GWIS
2022	11,635	3,765,760	GWIS
2021	13,130	4,115,580	GWIS
2020	12,343	3,954,447	GWIS
2019	10,067	3,130,220	GWIS
2018	6,163	1,696,488	GWIS
2017	12,326	3,819,482	GWIS
2016	12,641	3,881,798	GWIS
2015	9,661	3,013,525	GWIS
2014	11,170	3,312,275	GWIS
2013	12,158	3,821,931	GWIS
2012	8,889	2,888,367	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.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	75k	146k	49k	31k	13k	6k	4k	69k			393,803	Koussané 12,164 ha
2025	23k	30k	21k	12k	5k		5k	549k	399k	56k	1,101,033	Tessit 41,288 ha
2024	7k	13k	7k	18k				51k	192k	43k	331,987	N'tillit 40,019 ha
2023	10k	4k	15k	15k	5k	2k		14k	96k	28k	189,801	Mondoro 26,438 ha
2022	13k	31k	16k	12k	3k			33k	45k	40k	193,452	Koussané 7,390 ha
2021	24k	24k	52k	12k		2k	6k	24k	42k	15k	200,811	Timissa 12,485 ha
2020	6k	49k	7k	8k	5k			48k	47k	19k	189,297	Ségué 18,490 ha
2019	15k	11k	5k	31k	3k			12k	23k	14k	113,681	Mondoro 10,199 ha
2018	5k		2k	16k				8k			30,378	Togoro Kotia 4,715 ha
2017	11k	8k	14k	2k				43k	50k		128,708	Guidimé 7,711 ha
2016	25k	5k	5k	22k	6k	3k		21k	37k	16k	138,672	Ouagadou 8,414 ha