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Wildfires in Somalia

2 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2019, adding up to 2,211 hectares burned across 2 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

Somalia, at this point in the year: 2,608 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 24,686.

0 42k 85k Jan Apr Jul Oct Dec
2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

The GWIS yearly series

2012–2026
Yearly average 2016–202514,006 ha
Worst year2016 27,258 ha
With a page here2 since 2019
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Year Fires hectares Source
202611 2,608 GWIS
202538 9,024 GWIS
202447 12,736 GWIS
202332 8,291 GWIS
202243 10,442 GWIS
202191 23,113 GWIS
202058 15,796 GWIS
201968 19,419 GWIS
201830 5,338 GWIS
201740 8,641 GWIS
2016107 27,258 GWIS
201535 9,715 GWIS
2014195 53,178 GWIS
2013199 75,445 GWIS
2012236 85,647 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecΣLargest of the year
2022
1k
1,045 Lughaya 1,045 ha
2019
1k
1,166 Afmadow 1,166 ha

Hectares burned per year

Largest recorded fires

By region

  1. Lower Juba 1,173 ha · 1
  2. Awdal 1,052 ha · 1

Fires in 2022 · 1

Fires in 2019 · 1