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Wildfires in Rwanda

39 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 83,241 hectares burned across 3 districts.

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

Rwanda, at this point in the year: 10,183 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 24,670.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202521,331 ha

Worst year2016 42,346 ha

With a page here39 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	36	10,183	GWIS
2025	41	7,089	GWIS
2024	72	16,629	GWIS
2023	53	13,423	GWIS
2022	76	24,313	GWIS
2021	78	19,681	GWIS
2020	116	24,122	GWIS
2019	113	25,665	GWIS
2018	63	16,667	GWIS
2017	83	23,372	GWIS
2016	354	42,346	GWIS
2015	244	46,333	GWIS
2014	56	16,952	GWIS
2013	435	47,891	GWIS
2012	120	22,757	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.