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Wildfires in Switzerland
A single fire over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2022, which burned 150 hectares across 1 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
2006–2026Yearly average 2022–2023152 ha
Worst year2022 235 ha
With a page here1 since 2022
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2025 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2024 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2023 | 1 | 68 | EFFIS |
| 2022 | 2 | 235 | EFFIS |
| 2021 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2020 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2019 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2018 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2017 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2016 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2015 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2014 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2013 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2012 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2011 | 1 | 74 | EFFIS |
| 2010 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2009 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2008 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2007 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2006 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Σ | Largest of the year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 150 | 150 | Gambarogno 150 ha |
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Ticino 149 ha · 1