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Wildfires in Tunisia in 2023

10 fires larger than 100 hectares in Tunisia in 2023, with 4,969 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

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 year in a few sentences

  1. According to Copernicus EFFIS, 5,904 hectares burned in Tunisia in 2023: 75% of the average of the other years from 2009 to 2025 (7,914 ha).

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 23 July to 29 July: 3,721 hectares burned in seven days, 63% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the الكريب fire, which started on 25 July 2023 and burned 1,336 hectares: 27% of the area of the year's 10 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

Official burned area
5,904 ha
Copernicus EFFIS · ×0.7 the average
Fires with a page
10
4,969 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
1,336 ha
الكريب · 25 Jul
Highest FWI
—
Not yet calculated with the current method

Map of the year

Copernicus EFFIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

Week by week, against other years

Copernicus EFFIS

Cumulative burned area in 2023 over the lowest and highest of each week in the record since 2006, and its average. The bars below show what burned each week. Tap the chart to see a week. The average and the band are the Copernicus EFFIS climatology for 2006–2025, which includes 2023 itself.

0 9,498 19k 28k Worst week · 3,721 ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2023 average 2006–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2009

Copernicus EFFIS

Hectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.

2023: 5,904 ha Average of the other years: 7,914 ha

Cite this

Markdown version

Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.

- According to Copernicus EFFIS, 5,904 hectares burned in Tunisia in 2023: 75% of the average of the other years from 2009 to 2025 (7,914 ha).
- The worst week was 23 July to 29 July: 3,721 hectares burned in seven days, 63% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.
- The largest fire was the الكريب fire, which started on 25 July 2023 and burned 1,336 hectares: 27% of the area of the year's 10 fires with a page.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Tunisia in 2023”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/tunisia/2023 (accessed 12 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires.

Fires of 2023, largest first · 10

Burned area in 2023 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 13,838 ha burned in 2023: rank 6 of 7 complete years (1 = the most burned). The average of those years is 46,705 ha.

The area the Sentinel-3 satellite sees burned each month, separate from the fire pages. It is the same source and the same method every year, so years can be compared with each other. It counts everything that burns, including crop and pasture burning, which is why it does not match the fire pages or the official statistics.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Where most burned in 2023

  1. Bizerte 4,078 ha
  2. Béja 3,642 ha
  3. Jendouba 2,839 ha
  4. Siliana 1,886 ha
  5. Kairouan 408 ha
  6. Tozeur 227 ha
  7. Nabeul 211 ha
  8. Manouba 211 ha
  9. Kébili 201 ha
  10. Kasserine 134 ha

The whole series since 2018

Source: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, “Burnt Area 2018-present (raster 300 m), global, monthly – version 4”, monthly Sentinel-3 product, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34. Generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information; worldfires.org adds up, by country and region, the true area of the 300 m cells where a burn was detected. Latest month published: May 2026. Product page · Methodology

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus EFFIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated