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Wildfires in Russia

5,483 fires over 3,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 62,425,539 hectares burned across 514 districts.

Only fires of 3,000 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

Russia, at this point in the year: 7,684,674 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 13,981,609.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202513,120,649 ha

Worst year2021 17,344,704 ha

With a page here5,483 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	13,014	7,689,208	GWIS
2025	12,335	6,982,004	GWIS
2024	15,622	12,329,566	GWIS
2023	19,187	10,326,697	GWIS
2022	24,182	10,548,753	GWIS
2021	25,812	17,344,704	GWIS
2020	33,888	16,405,477	GWIS
2019	31,957	16,182,911	GWIS
2018	29,238	14,278,359	GWIS
2017	28,855	11,420,047	GWIS
2016	26,105	15,387,969	GWIS
2015	33,788	14,158,508	GWIS
2014	47,983	19,727,598	GWIS
2013	23,602	10,342,998	GWIS
2012	42,620	25,227,614	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		8k	38k	263k	845k	584k	2,588k	2,119k	56k	26k			6,527,075	Mirninsky Ulus 586,597 ha
2025		15k	7k	421k	2,178k	346k	73k	6k	5k	40k	12k		3,103,584	Chitinsky District 259,015 ha
2024			28k	206k	553k	2,901k	1,675k	524k	154k	109k			6,150,798	Olyokminsky Ulus 185,629 ha
2023			63k	425k	1,066k	625k	1,730k	231k	11k	6k			4,156,593	Ust-Maysky Ulus 132,870 ha
2022		4k	38k	1,005k	523k	411k	1,165k	151k	88k	74k	16k		3,475,831	Ayano-Maysky Rayon 113,876 ha
2021			24k	660k	796k	2,977k	4,050k	691k	237k	122k	3k		9,559,796	Gorny Ulus 1,009,567 ha
2020			98k	518k	90k	1,769k	2,256k	960k	563k	41k	7k		6,302,351	Verkhnekolymsky Ulus 156,068 ha
2019	11k	107k	166k	320k	338k	1,016k	3,950k	732k	11k	58k	13k		6,721,560	Zhigansky Ulus 197,200 ha
2018			125k	1,867k	731k	1,171k	1,291k	585k	27k	12k			5,809,537	Zeysky District 312,147 ha
2017			31k	317k	64k	906k	1,020k	678k	28k	110k	3k	4k	3,162,282	Gorny Ulus 261,155 ha
2016			3k	146k	2,097k	1,237k	2,353k	159k	1,050k	401k	11k		7,456,132	Tigilsky District 191,474 ha