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Wildfires in Sweden

38 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2017, adding up to 22,362 hectares burned across 20 municipalities.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

The official record

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–20252,617 ha

Worst year2018 21,320 ha

With a page here38 since 2017

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	4	185	EFFIS
2025	12	1,079	EFFIS
2024	5	288	EFFIS
2023	4	188	EFFIS
2022	5	266	EFFIS
2021	8	946	EFFIS
2020	6	769	EFFIS
2019	8	485	EFFIS
2018	63	21,320	EFFIS
2017	8	732	EFFIS
2016	1	99	EFFIS
2015	3	147	EFFIS
2014	12	13,633	EFFIS
2013	1	50	EFFIS
2012	0	—	EFFIS
2011	1	143	EFFIS
2010	0	—	EFFIS
2009	5	716	EFFIS
2008	5	1,668	EFFIS
2007	0	—	EFFIS
2006	0	—	EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.