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Wildfires in Togo

364 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 671,999 hectares burned across 27 prefectures.

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

Togo, at this point in the year: 208,905 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 318,660.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–2025596,115 ha

Worst year2016 848,369 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	625	208,905	GWIS
2025	926	276,760	GWIS
2024	1,480	447,605	GWIS
2023	1,421	417,156	GWIS
2022	2,318	691,782	GWIS
2021	1,965	592,377	GWIS
2020	2,724	771,052	GWIS
2019	2,202	658,026	GWIS
2018	1,605	457,737	GWIS
2017	2,759	800,283	GWIS
2016	2,831	848,369	GWIS
2015	3,553	1,044,633	GWIS
2014	2,675	779,169	GWIS
2013	3,425	973,035	GWIS
2012	2,351	699,308	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.