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Wildfires in Morocco

110 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 68,314 hectares burned across 34 provinces.

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.

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

The official record

2006–2026
Yearly average 2016–20257,024 ha
Worst year2022 32,132 ha
With a page here110 since 2016
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›See the year-by-year table
Year Fires hectares Source
202634 5,993 EFFIS
202515 2,617 EFFIS
20248 652 EFFIS
202331 7,627 EFFIS
202244 32,132 EFFIS
202128 5,568 EFFIS
202026 7,382 EFFIS
201919 4,649 EFFIS
201816 1,104 EFFIS
201725 4,645 EFFIS
201619 3,864 EFFIS
20156 565 EFFIS
20148 999 EFFIS
20137 2,806 EFFIS
201213 11,148 EFFIS
201115 4,668 EFFIS
20104 2,827 EFFIS
20097 2,111 EFFIS
20080 — EFFIS
20070 — EFFIS
20060 — 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecΣLargest of the year
2026
1k
508
2k
552
434
191
5,059 Berrechid 1,177 ha
2025
2k
1,973 Chefchaouen 1,538 ha
2024
332
332 Taza 173 ha
2023
546
4k
2k
139
241
6,736 Berkane 2,682 ha
2022
1k
432
26k
3k
207
106
31,117 Larache 12,623 ha
2021
2k
3k
105
209
4,646 Chefchaouen 2,128 ha
2020
127
4k
2k
6,629 Larache 2,084 ha
2019
393
774
3k
250
4,014 Driouch 1,381 ha
2018
276
150
426 Chefchaouen 164 ha
2017
109
264
3k
391
347
3,960 Jerada 1,471 ha
2016
1k
1k
797
360
3,422 Nador 843 ha

Hectares burned per year

Largest recorded fires

By region

  1. Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima 43,645 ha · 53
  2. Oriental 8,464 ha · 10
  3. Fez-Meknes 8,433 ha · 21
  4. Souss-Massa 2,291 ha · 8
  5. Rabat-Salé-Kenitra 2,277 ha · 9
  6. Casablanca-Settat 1,402 ha · 3
  7. Béni Mellal-Khénifra 1,339 ha · 5
  8. Drâa-Tafilalet 433 ha · 1
  9. Marrakech-Safi 343 ha · 2

Fires in 2026 · 17

Fires in 2025 · 3

Fires in 2024 · 2

Fires in 2023 · 13

Fires in 2022 · 22

Fires in 2021 · 10

Fires in 2020 · 11

Fires in 2019 · 7

Fires in 2018 · 3

Fires in 2017 · 11

Fires in 2016 · 12