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Wildfires in Nepal

163 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 761,097 hectares burned across 121 municipalities.

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.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Nepal, at this point in the year: 156,365 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 575,140.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025624,304 ha

Worst year2016 1,444,602 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	769	156,365	GWIS
2025	876	188,610	GWIS
2024	2,632	513,940	GWIS
2023	2,991	633,792	GWIS
2022	1,641	412,052	GWIS
2021	5,834	1,374,837	GWIS
2020	816	162,013	GWIS
2019	2,365	712,024	GWIS
2018	1,801	419,726	GWIS
2017	1,280	381,442	GWIS
2016	5,530	1,444,602	GWIS
2015	659	149,740	GWIS
2014	3,167	737,601	GWIS
2013	1,849	461,357	GWIS
2012	2,527	650,901	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.

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