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Wildfires in Puerto Rico
A single fire over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2026, which burned 1,013 hectares across 1 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 GWISPuerto Rico, at this point in the year: 229 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 1,417.
2026
average 2012–2025
lowest and highest
The GWIS yearly series
2012–2026Yearly average 2016–20251,212 ha
Worst year2019 2,517 ha
With a page here1 since 2026
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 229 | GWIS |
| 2025 | 2 | 536 | GWIS |
| 2024 | 4 | 1,260 | GWIS |
| 2023 | 3 | 523 | GWIS |
| 2022 | 8 | 1,377 | GWIS |
| 2021 | 4 | 827 | GWIS |
| 2020 | 0 | — | GWIS |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,517 | GWIS |
| 2018 | 7 | 1,509 | GWIS |
| 2017 | 5 | 1,028 | GWIS |
| 2016 | 6 | 1,329 | GWIS |
| 2015 | 11 | 1,528 | GWIS |
| 2014 | 9 | 1,955 | GWIS |
| 2013 | 13 | 3,639 | GWIS |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,994 | GWIS |
National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.