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Wildfires in Niger

536 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 1,096,234 hectares burned across 55 communes.

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.

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

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Niger, at this point in the year: 95,941 hectares, 1.2 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025226,765 ha

Worst year2025 429,269 ha

With a page here536 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	260	96,497	GWIS
2025	895	429,269	GWIS
2024	625	345,483	GWIS
2023	485	198,806	GWIS
2022	528	228,641	GWIS
2021	645	295,738	GWIS
2020	453	177,842	GWIS
2019	421	158,665	GWIS
2018	282	108,273	GWIS
2017	343	145,920	GWIS
2016	371	179,016	GWIS
2015	211	102,651	GWIS
2014	281	117,482	GWIS
2013	321	126,194	GWIS
2012	341	150,781	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	Jul	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	19k	26k	9k	9k	6k	1k	1k		20k			92,616	Kokorou 5,374 ha
2025	12k	6k	7k	3k	1k		1k	1k	198k	82k	42k	353,885	Tesker 11,463 ha
2024	7k	1k							17k	109k	41k	175,895	Dessa 13,729 ha
2023		1k	3k	4k					15k	20k	2k	46,670	Tillia 3,293 ha
2022	4k	12k	5k		2k				28k	23k		74,992	Tillia 8,590 ha
2021	8k	7k	7k	1k	1k			7k	36k	19k	14k	100,674	Tillia 6,738 ha
2020	5k	4k	1k	1k					10k	14k	4k	39,999	Tesker 3,283 ha
2019	4k			3k					14k	19k	7k	46,130	Bosso 12,329 ha
2018	1k			7k					32k	6k	5k	51,420	Bosso 22,697 ha
2017	5k	1k	2k						13k	11k	5k	36,687	Tamou 2,581 ha
2016	5k	3k	6k					8k	23k	21k	11k	77,266	N'Guigmi 10,745 ha