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Wildfires in Uruguay
8 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2019, adding up to 38,432 hectares burned across 9 municipalities.
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 GWISUruguay, at this point in the year: 13,807 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 30,238.
2026
average 2012–2025
lowest and highest
The GWIS yearly series
2012–2026Yearly average 2016–202533,916 ha
Worst year2020 76,411 ha
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| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 68 | 13,807 | GWIS |
| 2025 | 91 | 19,593 | GWIS |
| 2024 | 40 | 9,755 | GWIS |
| 2023 | 131 | 32,692 | GWIS |
| 2022 | 171 | 38,610 | GWIS |
| 2021 | 161 | 60,318 | GWIS |
| 2020 | 332 | 76,411 | GWIS |
| 2019 | 141 | 30,866 | GWIS |
| 2018 | 144 | 29,245 | GWIS |
| 2017 | 102 | 20,774 | GWIS |
| 2016 | 108 | 20,893 | GWIS |
| 2015 | 349 | 70,310 | GWIS |
| 2014 | 98 | 18,293 | GWIS |
| 2013 | 163 | 34,163 | GWIS |
| 2012 | 196 | 43,329 | GWIS |
National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Río Negro 11,575 ha · 2
- Paysandú 9,950 ha · 1
- Rocha 4,261 ha · 3
- Treinta y Tres 869 ha · 2
- Lavalleja 848 ha · 1
- Tacuarembó 538 ha · 1