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Wildfires in Suriname

63 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 116,775 hectares burned across 24 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.

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

Suriname, at this point in the year: 40,437 hectares, 1.3 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202547,717 ha

Worst year2024 127,368 ha

With a page here63 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	163	41,023	GWIS
2025	62	16,348	GWIS
2024	289	127,368	GWIS
2023	339	96,888	GWIS
2022	46	12,179	GWIS
2021	68	14,222	GWIS
2020	161	43,041	GWIS
2019	155	45,509	GWIS
2018	222	41,316	GWIS
2017	91	26,967	GWIS
2016	197	53,335	GWIS
2015	235	60,190	GWIS
2014	139	36,028	GWIS
2013	67	18,695	GWIS
2012	164	57,760	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.