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Wildfires in Netherlands
5 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2018, adding up to 1,475 hectares burned across 7 municipalities.
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.
The official record
2006–2026Yearly average 2018–2025296 ha
Worst year2020 822 ha
With a page here5 since 2018
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 635 | EFFIS |
| 2025 | 4 | 170 | EFFIS |
| 2024 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2023 | 1 | 31 | EFFIS |
| 2022 | 6 | 274 | EFFIS |
| 2021 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2020 | 2 | 822 | EFFIS |
| 2019 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2018 | 3 | 183 | EFFIS |
| 2017 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2016 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2015 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2014 | 1 | 396 | EFFIS |
| 2013 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2012 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2011 | 1 | 148 | EFFIS |
| 2010 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2009 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2008 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2007 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2006 | 0 | — | 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.
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Noord-Brabant 759 ha · 2
- Gelderland 526 ha · 2
- Limburg 188 ha · 3