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Wildfires in Panama

43 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 57,206 hectares burned across 22 districts.

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

Panama, at this point in the year: 43,889 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 120,457.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025116,887 ha

Worst year2019 265,611 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	252	43,889	GWIS
2025	93	14,895	GWIS
2024	324	64,530	GWIS
2023	730	139,982	GWIS
2022	446	75,215	GWIS
2021	391	69,998	GWIS
2020	850	156,566	GWIS
2019	1,251	265,611	GWIS
2018	320	58,988	GWIS
2017	517	91,784	GWIS
2016	1,006	231,304	GWIS
2015	938	188,309	GWIS
2014	620	119,218	GWIS
2013	534	98,662	GWIS
2012	597	113,384	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.