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Wildfires in Senegal

841 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 3,315,303 hectares burned across 55 districts.

Only fires of 2,000 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 one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Senegal, at this point in the year: 1,209,862 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 1,223,285.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20252,288,280 ha

Worst year2023 2,976,312 ha

With a page here841 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	2,878	1,210,857	GWIS
2025	4,633	1,726,633	GWIS
2024	5,136	2,002,443	GWIS
2023	7,870	2,976,312	GWIS
2022	7,392	2,875,338	GWIS
2021	7,179	2,609,746	GWIS
2020	6,827	2,585,091	GWIS
2019	5,727	2,063,608	GWIS
2018	3,495	1,166,686	GWIS
2017	6,614	2,498,620	GWIS
2016	6,536	2,378,323	GWIS
2015	4,077	1,456,005	GWIS
2014	5,676	2,107,325	GWIS
2013	6,200	2,166,594	GWIS
2012	4,909	1,668,218	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	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	350k	255k	70k	26k						701,875	Missira 131,818 ha
2025	61k	67k	28k	9k	2k		89k	78k	88k	421,481	Missira 49,558 ha
2024	59k	52k	25k	2k			4k	17k	68k	227,024	Missira 24,965 ha
2023	112k	44k	57k	14k	5k		21k	16k	47k	316,183	Bandafassi 34,293 ha
2022	47k	107k	49k	19k			44k	35k	45k	346,728	Missira 18,183 ha
2021	74k	128k	44k				3k	13k	45k	306,293	Bandafassi 21,620 ha
2020	77k	93k	28k	2k			43k	14k	19k	276,246	Bandafassi 31,411 ha
2019	40k	73k	30k	13k			4k	10k	21k	189,940	Missira 7,159 ha
2018	51k		15k	11k	4k				9k	90,702	Missira 6,283 ha
2017	68k	53k	41k	17k		3k	9k	21k	25k	236,737	Missira 17,451 ha
2016	82k	32k	25k	16k			6k	7k	33k	202,094	Bandafassi 30,325 ha