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Wildfires in Philippines

117 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 187,505 hectares burned across 89 municipalities.

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

Philippines, at this point in the year: 247,081 hectares, 1.1 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025237,210 ha

Worst year2016 470,921 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	1,610	247,081	GWIS
2025	396	59,816	GWIS
2024	1,768	274,908	GWIS
2023	1,369	205,624	GWIS
2022	798	120,517	GWIS
2021	1,063	140,764	GWIS
2020	2,342	331,058	GWIS
2019	2,881	422,434	GWIS
2018	1,344	175,477	GWIS
2017	1,076	170,579	GWIS
2016	3,205	470,921	GWIS
2015	2,821	414,670	GWIS
2014	1,989	275,981	GWIS
2013	1,316	185,930	GWIS
2012	902	137,267	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.