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Wildfires in Peru

453 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 802,488 hectares burned across 129 provinces.

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 9 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Peru, at this point in the year: 387,336 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 824,651.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025932,690 ha

Worst year2022 1,282,746 ha

With a page here453 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	1,635	387,336	GWIS
2025	1,583	368,521	GWIS
2024	3,919	1,138,651	GWIS
2023	2,491	612,682	GWIS
2022	5,015	1,282,746	GWIS
2021	3,404	824,208	GWIS
2020	5,234	1,253,607	GWIS
2019	4,297	1,125,897	GWIS
2018	3,423	800,731	GWIS
2017	2,627	637,791	GWIS
2016	5,149	1,282,063	GWIS
2015	3,753	908,709	GWIS
2014	2,756	657,758	GWIS
2013	3,301	823,578	GWIS
2012	4,687	1,194,159	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	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026			5k	9k	25k	23k	90k			151,226	Abancay 8,522 ha
2025				1k	3k	11k	5k	1k	10k	30,848	Puerto Inca 2,627 ha
2024				3k	48k	99k	8k	9k		167,851	Tahuamanu 22,349 ha
2023				2k	6k	10k	2k			18,979	Ucayali 3,351 ha
2022		1k	2k	1k	11k	41k	23k	10k	3k	92,280	Tahuamanu 3,640 ha
2021				1k	19k	19k	2k	1k		43,323	Tahuamanu 6,184 ha
2020			1k	6k	25k	13k	7k	5k		56,620	Tahuamanu 4,303 ha
2019				5k	26k	46k	7k			83,926	Contralmirante Villar 6,492 ha
2018			2k	2k	11k	14k	1k			29,825	Tahuamanu 4,800 ha
2017					5k	11k	4k	1k		21,510	Tahuamanu 6,303 ha
2016	1k		1k	8k	14k	14k		68k		106,100	Chota 12,032 ha