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Wildfires in Paraguay

2,106 fires over 1,500 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 7,592,416 hectares burned across 134 districts.

Only fires of 1,500 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

Paraguay, at this point in the year: 753,879 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 2,546,044.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20253,176,160 ha

Worst year2020 5,999,180 ha

With a page here2,106 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	2,346	757,478	GWIS
2025	3,605	1,242,341	GWIS
2024	6,229	2,665,608	GWIS
2023	6,460	2,746,807	GWIS
2022	7,317	2,853,315	GWIS
2021	8,983	3,799,072	GWIS
2020	13,130	5,999,180	GWIS
2019	8,868	3,378,596	GWIS
2018	6,689	2,160,008	GWIS
2017	10,065	3,899,746	GWIS
2016	8,640	3,016,924	GWIS
2015	5,895	2,131,645	GWIS
2014	6,230	2,307,768	GWIS
2013	10,486	3,945,222	GWIS
2012	7,028	2,527,572	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	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	7k	27k	13k	5k	2k	8k	14k	39k	97k	8k			219,693	Bahía Negra 15,811 ha
2025	14k	6k	20k	7k	2k		14k	5k	24k	52k	14k	8k	166,352	Bahía Negra 30,947 ha
2024	15k	29k	95k	7k	15k	78k	32k	194k	321k	41k	20k		846,277	Bahía Negra 205,039 ha
2023	21k	46k	22k	5k	14k	11k	8k	32k	185k	212k	132k	4k	693,131	Villa Hayes 36,063 ha
2022	313k	114k	32k	2k	8k	4k	22k	25k	28k	20k	32k	12k	611,950	Villa Hayes 36,663 ha
2021	2k	9k	7k	13k	8k	13k	61k	686k	185k	51k	19k	90k	1,142,889	San Carlos 89,177 ha
2020	20k	38k	112k	82k	42k	38k	142k	309k	839k	167k	107k	18k	1,913,295	General Jose Maria Bruguez 151,199 ha
2019	16k	29k	6k			27k	18k	84k	451k	153k	27k	11k	823,095	Bahía Negra 93,683 ha
2018	3k			8k		3k		79k	64k	28k		12k	196,813	Fuerte Olimpo 8,087 ha
2017	20k	2k	12k	2k		4k	66k	198k	191k	122k	34k	10k	661,190	Puerto Pinasco 20,559 ha
2016	28k	12k	4k	6k			13k	42k	108k	87k	11k	6k	317,731	Bahía Negra 13,804 ha