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Wildfires in Mauritania

208 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 492,562 hectares burned across 18 departments.

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

Mauritania, at this point in the year: 54,891 hectares, 1.6 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202571,546 ha

Worst year2025 128,079 ha

With a page here208 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	102	54,891	GWIS
2025	156	128,079	GWIS
2024	136	77,762	GWIS
2023	216	118,666	GWIS
2022	127	75,770	GWIS
2021	163	106,744	GWIS
2020	99	53,890	GWIS
2019	87	42,682	GWIS
2018	38	12,506	GWIS
2017	67	38,506	GWIS
2016	98	60,850	GWIS
2015	38	16,867	GWIS
2014	61	28,388	GWIS
2013	161	87,122	GWIS
2012	130	90,756	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	Jul	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	11k	21k	16k	3k	6k		1k	8k			66,351	Basseknou 7,001 ha
2025	20k		1k	5k				21k	88k	1k	136,461	Kankossa 23,660 ha
2024	12k	3k	2k	2k				4k	8k	10k	41,311	Ghabou 8,237 ha
2023	10k	18k	2k		5k			5k	12k	7k	59,660	Kankossa 6,334 ha
2022		3k	6k					10k	15k	7k	41,497	Ghabou 7,212 ha
2021	25k	4k	10k					10k	5k	3k	56,341	Basseknou 8,929 ha
2020								7k	11k	3k	20,876	Ghabou 4,854 ha
2019	1k				8k	1k		6k		1k	17,747	Basseknou 4,155 ha
2018								3k			2,772	Amourj 2,772 ha
2017	1k	2k	1k	3k				5k			13,358	Kankossa 3,278 ha
2016	3k	5k	3k	10k	1k			6k	1k	7k	36,188	Kankossa 4,489 ha