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Wildfires in Tunisia

192 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 108,254 hectares burned across 71 delegations.

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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The official record

2006–2026
Yearly average 2016–20259,115 ha
Worst year2021 28,493 ha
With a page here192 since 2016
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›See the year-by-year table
Year Fires hectares Source
202678 29,154 EFFIS
202536 6,150 EFFIS
202415 1,110 EFFIS
202328 5,904 EFFIS
202260 10,846 EFFIS
202157 28,493 EFFIS
202053 11,106 EFFIS
201920 3,059 EFFIS
20185 962 EFFIS
201750 18,998 EFFIS
201617 4,523 EFFIS
201520 6,162 EFFIS
201430 11,532 EFFIS
201321 13,247 EFFIS
201211 3,061 EFFIS
201118 3,690 EFFIS
20104 3,551 EFFIS
20091 129 EFFIS
20080 — EFFIS
20070 — EFFIS
20060 — 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecΣLargest of the year
2026
226
20k
6k
109
703
27,127 ساقية سيدي يوسف 13,434 ha
2025
510
3k
630
138
4,731 برقو 1,952 ha
2024
303
220
523 الفحص 303 ha
2023
4k
1k
215
4,969 الكريب 1,336 ha
2022
914
4k
3k
880
312
8,921 برقو 1,615 ha
2021
8k
9k
9k
142
540
27,420 القصرين الجنوبية 4,426 ha
2020
2k
5k
3k
9,348 القصرين الجنوبية 1,783 ha
2019
2k
722
2,518 القصرين الشمالية 1,072 ha
2018
737
737 كسرى 737 ha
2017
2k
4k
11k
311
17,801 سجنان 3,705 ha
2016
2k
2k
4,159 الكاف الشرقية 1,207 ha

Hectares burned per year

Largest recorded fires

By region

  1. Kasserine 26,040 ha · 36
  2. El Kef 23,085 ha · 26
  3. Bizerte 13,290 ha · 41
  4. Siliana 10,926 ha · 12
  5. Jendouba 10,890 ha · 35
  6. Béja 9,118 ha · 28
  7. Zaghouan 7,347 ha · 10
  8. Kairouan 2,070 ha · 10
  9. Nabeul 1,481 ha · 6
  10. Sidi Bouzid 1,314 ha · 8
  11. Ben Arous 1,006 ha · 3
  12. Ariana 672 ha · 2

and 3 more regions with less area

Fires in 2026 · 37

Fires in 2025 · 12

Fires in 2024 · 2

Fires in 2023 · 10

Fires in 2022 · 23

Fires in 2021 · 37

Fires in 2020 · 20

Fires in 2019 · 10

Fires in 2018 · 1

Fires in 2017 · 31

Fires in 2016 · 10