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Wildfires in Venezuela
2,566 fires over 1,500 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 7,624,564 hectares burned across 153 municipalities.
Only fires of 1,500 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.
These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.
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Key facts
- According to Copernicus GWIS, 3,346,976 hectares burned in Venezuela in 2025.
- The worst year in Venezuela since 2016 was 2020, with 8,011,009 hectares burned according to Copernicus GWIS.
- According to Copernicus GWIS estimates, an average of 4,777,267 hectares burn in Venezuela each year (2016–2025 average).
- Fires counted by Copernicus GWIS in Venezuela so far in 2026 (up to week 42): 8,404, against an average of 13,711 per full year in 2016–2025.
- Largest fire recorded by WorldFires in Venezuela since 2016: Sucre fire, 3 April 2024, with 45,916 hectares burned — perimeter rebuilt from heat detections (Copernicus GWIS).
Figures computed on 27 October 2026 from the WorldFires database; each sentence names its source. Reusable under CC BY 4.0 with credit to WorldFires.
How the season is going · week 42
Copernicus GWIS · provisional76 %
against the 2012–2025 average
Venezuela is running below the usual for this point in the year, at 76 % of the average: 3,124,306 hectares burned up to week 42, against an average of 4,116,980 in 2012–2025 (Copernicus GWIS).
- 2026
- 3,124,306 ha
- average
- 4,116,980 ha
- minimum
- 1,686,355 ha
- maximum
- 7,858,353 ha
GWIS estimates for the current year are provisional and may change.
The season, week by week
Copernicus GWIS
2026
average 2012–2025
lowest and highest
The GWIS yearly series
2012–2026Yearly average 2016–20254,777,267 ha
Worst year2020 8,011,009 ha
With a page here2,566 since 2016
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8,463 | 3,139,428 | GWIS |
| 2025 | 9,483 | 3,346,976 | GWIS |
| 2024 | 16,990 | 6,803,773 | GWIS |
| 2023 | 13,851 | 4,792,868 | GWIS |
| 2022 | 14,054 | 4,733,412 | GWIS |
| 2021 | 9,057 | 2,709,180 | GWIS |
| 2020 | 22,623 | 8,011,009 | GWIS |
| 2019 | 17,481 | 6,240,621 | GWIS |
| 2018 | 11,103 | 3,575,768 | GWIS |
| 2017 | 9,484 | 2,889,735 | GWIS |
| 2016 | 12,984 | 4,669,326 | GWIS |
| 2015 | 11,875 | 3,763,604 | GWIS |
| 2014 | 13,996 | 4,672,757 | GWIS |
| 2013 | 13,278 | 4,509,786 | GWIS |
| 2012 | 6,750 | 2,126,487 | GWIS |
National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.
Fire calendar
The peak usually comes in week 11 (around 15 March): that is the median of the week with the most burned area in each year since 2016.
Each cell is one week; the colour shows the area of the fires on record that started that week, in quartiles for this country. Tap a cell for details.
Hectares per week:
no fires
< 3,7023,702–14,54514,545–42,360≥ 42,360
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Σ | Largest of the year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 98k | 605k | 484k | 82k | 16k | 2k | 2k | 5k | 4k | 1,297,605 | Achaguas 37,402 ha | |||
| 2025 | 68k | 129k | 159k | 8k | 2k | 3k | 46k | 414,970 | Libertador 29,991 ha | |||||
| 2024 | 234k | 493k | 510k | 276k | 28k | 5k | 1,545,259 | Sucre 45,916 ha | ||||||
| 2023 | 27k | 163k | 223k | 81k | 7k | 3k | 4k | 3k | 2k | 24k | 535,724 | Maturín 39,669 ha | ||
| 2022 | 75k | 232k | 201k | 61k | 3k | 5k | 577,137 | Maturín 24,750 ha | ||||||
| 2021 | 8k | 41k | 27k | 12k | 2k | 2k | 3k | 9k | 103,897 | Muñoz 6,529 ha | ||||
| 2020 | 72k | 298k | 570k | 166k | 39k | 2k | 3k | 1,150,224 | Catatumbo 27,868 ha | |||||
| 2019 | 78k | 310k | 289k | 132k | 4k | 2k | 14k | 828,934 | Independencia 28,615 ha | |||||
| 2018 | 22k | 9k | 188k | 67k | 6k | 2k | 16k | 310,063 | Maturín 20,000 ha | |||||
| 2017 | 8k | 49k | 21k | 56k | 4k | 6k | 10k | 153,122 | Francisco de Miranda 10,750 ha | |||||
| 2016 | 136k | 192k | 352k | 25k | 2k | 707,629 | Rosario de Perijá 26,276 ha |
Hectares burned per year
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Largest recorded fires
By region
- Apure 2,711,382 ha · 926
- Guárico 1,027,448 ha · 446
- Monagas 703,590 ha · 175
- Cojedes 690,171 ha · 240
- Bolívar 638,416 ha · 194
- Anzoátegui 479,927 ha · 167
- Zulia 438,764 ha · 138
- Barinas 282,448 ha · 129
- Delta Amacuro 159,128 ha · 42
- Amazonas 114,854 ha · 51
- Portuguesa 94,845 ha · 45
- Sucre 70,250 ha · 28
Municipalities that have burned most often in Venezuela
- 327×Pedro Camejo11 years · 869,606 ha
- 219×Achaguas11 years · 563,443 ha
- 211×Muñoz11 years · 549,033 ha
- 205×Rómulo Gallegos11 years · 516,351 ha
- 184×Francisco de Miranda11 years · 370,468 ha
Full ranking: by number of fires, area and share of the municipality →
Fires in 2026 · 397
- 37,402 haAchaguas17 February 2026 · 40 days
- 36,349 haRómulo Gallegos28 February 2026 · 17 days
- 21,806 haGirardot8 February 2026 · 36 days
- 21,292 haPedro Camejo20 March 2026 · 9 days
- 15,737 haLibertador17 February 2026 · 20 days
- 14,701 haHeresFebruary 2026 · 15 days
- 14,654 haMaturín17 February 2026 · 21 days
- 14,045 haPao de San Juan Bautista20 February 2026 · 19 days
- 12,942 haPao de San Juan Bautista9 February 2026 · 29 days
- 12,317 haPedro Camejo20 March 2026 · 8 days
- 10,526 haPedro Camejo23 January 2026 · 4 days
- 10,398 haRómulo Gallegos14 March 2026 · 15 days
- 10,328 haPao de San Juan Bautista15 January 2026 · 16 days
- 9,501 haMuñoz13 February 2026 · 21 days
- 8,846 haPedro Camejo9 February 2026 · 37 days
- 8,522 haPedro Camejo24 February 2026 · 10 days
- 8,470 haMuñoz25 February 2026 · 27 days
- 8,455 haRómulo Gallegos21 February 2026 · 23 days
- 8,442 haPao de San Juan Bautista21 February 2026 · 15 days
- 7,464 haRaúl Leoni15 February 2026 · 15 days
Fires in 2025 · 141
- 29,991 haLibertador15 March 2025 · 17 days
- 13,531 haIndependencia21 February 2025 · 17 days
- 13,093 haGirardot18 February 2025 · 23 days
- 10,185 haMaturín27 March 2025 · 4 days
- 9,883 haTucupitaMarch 2025 · 17 days
- 8,652 haSan FernandoMarch 2025 · 9 days
- 7,326 haOrtíz12 December 2025 · 18 days
- 6,362 haSotilloMarch 2025 · 7 days
- 6,256 haMuñoz6 January 2025 · 17 days
- 5,664 haRómulo Gallegos28 March 2025 · 5 days
- 5,536 haFrancisco de Miranda12 December 2025 · 17 days
- 5,359 haPedro Camejo15 January 2025 · 9 days
- 5,290 haMuñoz4 February 2025 · 10 days
- 5,160 haMaturínFebruary 2025 · 3 days
- 5,155 haLibertadorFebruary 2025 · 6 days
- 4,537 haPedro Camejo8 March 2025 · 3 days
- 4,489 haMuñoz9 January 2025 · 11 days
- 4,331 haLibertador18 March 2025 · 9 days
- 4,226 haRómulo Gallegos9 March 2025 · 4 days
- 4,138 haOrtízJanuary 2025 · 12 days
Fires in 2024 · 482
- 45,916 haSucre3 April 2024 · 14 days
- 45,752 haSucre1 March 2024 · 48 days
- 39,607 haSotilloMarch 2024 · 14 days
- 28,430 haSucre23 February 2024 · 37 days
- 20,738 haGirardot15 February 2024 · 42 days
- 19,940 haLas Mercedes24 March 2024 · 31 days
- 18,823 haIndependencia17 February 2024 · 24 days
- 15,871 haAchaguas16 February 2024 · 21 days
- 15,606 haMaturín28 February 2024 · 33 days
- 13,901 haRaúl LeoniApril 2024 · 14 days
- 13,267 haAchaguas1 March 2024 · 24 days
- 13,142 haSucre2 March 2024 · 32 days
- 12,672 haMaturín11 May 2024 · 7 days
- 12,103 haAchaguas15 February 2024 · 37 days
- 10,441 haPao de San Juan Bautista22 February 2024 · 18 days
- 10,198 haAchaguas7 April 2024 · 10 days
- 9,747 haRómulo Gallegos3 March 2024 · 27 days
- 9,680 haMaturín7 March 2024 · 4 days
- 8,197 haSan Fernando17 February 2024 · 18 days
- 7,886 haPedro Camejo8 April 2024 · 8 days
Fires in 2023 · 193
- 39,669 haMaturín24 February 2023 · 36 days
- 12,281 haAchaguas2 April 2023 · 7 days
- 9,226 haAchaguas14 March 2023 · 17 days
- 8,969 haMaturínDecember 2023 · 22 days
- 6,786 haMaturín27 March 2023 · 4 days
- 6,657 haJulián MelladoMarch 2023 · 9 days
- 6,654 haPao de San Juan Bautista9 February 2023 · 12 days
- 6,439 haPedro Camejo17 February 2023 · 6 days
- 5,933 haFrancisco de Miranda19 February 2023 · 8 days
- 5,261 haMuñozDecember 2023 · 30 days
- 5,218 haGirardot18 March 2023 · 13 days
- 5,018 haPedro Camejo18 February 2023 · 3 days
- 4,980 haIndependencia19 March 2023 · 4 days
- 4,767 haPedraza22 March 2023 · 7 days
- 4,736 haGirardot17 February 2023 · 14 days
- 4,600 haArismendiFebruary 2023 · 15 days
- 4,547 haGuanarito16 March 2023 · 21 days
- 4,521 haOrtíz1 February 2023 · 4 days
- 4,477 haSosa15 March 2023 · 10 days
- 4,427 haOrtíz19 February 2023 · 5 days
Fires in 2022 · 205
- 24,750 haMaturín2 February 2022 · 21 days
- 10,966 haPedro Camejo5 March 2022 · 6 days
- 8,986 haPedro Camejo10 February 2022 · 13 days
- 8,226 haSan Fernando28 March 2022 · 18 days
- 8,208 haPedro Camejo11 March 2022 · 16 days
- 7,652 haRómulo Gallegos10 February 2022 · 16 days
- 7,449 haMachiques de Perijá17 February 2022 · 9 days
- 7,278 haAchaguas2 March 2022 · 26 days
- 5,956 haPedraza18 February 2022 · 9 days
- 5,878 haPedro Camejo11 February 2022 · 15 days
- 5,704 haFrancisco de Miranda9 April 2022 · 3 days
- 5,673 haPedernalesApril 2022 · 8 days
- 5,614 haAchaguas20 March 2022 · 7 days
- 5,263 haPedro Camejo23 March 2022 · 4 days
- 5,092 haPedro Camejo7 March 2022 · 3 days
- 5,022 haMuñoz1 February 2022 · 14 days
- 4,981 haSan Fernando6 March 2022 · 9 days
- 4,775 haRosario de Perijá19 February 2022 · 9 days
- 4,729 haMuñoz10 February 2022 · 17 days
- 4,691 haPao de San Juan BautistaMarch 2022 · 12 days
Fires in 2021 · 47
- 6,529 haMuñoz2 March 2021 · 4 days
- 5,299 haPedro CamejoDecember 2021 · 9 days
- 3,605 haMuñoz20 March 2021 · 3 days
- 3,329 haMaturínApril 2021 · 8 days
- 3,038 haAchaguasMarch 2021 · 10 days
- 3,018 haOrtíz10 February 2021 · 3 days
- 3,007 haPedro Camejo27 February 2021 · 5 days
- 2,891 haLibertadorApril 2021 · 4 days
- 2,683 haPedro Camejo26 February 2021 · 6 days
- 2,530 haMachiques de PerijáFebruary 2021 · 6 days
- 2,526 haRaúl LeoniNovember 2021 · 6 days
- 2,522 haSan FernandoApril 2021 · 7 days
- 2,513 haCedeñoFebruary 2021 · 6 days
- 2,508 haPedro Camejo17 February 2021 · 3 days
- 2,470 haAchaguas20 February 2021 · 3 days
- 2,313 haRómulo Gallegos27 December 2021 · 7 days
- 2,058 haPedro Camejo20 February 2021 · 2 days
- 2,055 haFrancisco de MirandaApril 2021 · 2 days
- 1,991 haPedro Camejo3 March 2021 · 1 day
- 1,972 haLas MercedesMarch 2021 · 4 days
Fires in 2020 · 400
- 27,868 haCatatumbo13 March 2020 · 30 days
- 18,427 haAchaguas15 March 2020 · 18 days
- 12,955 haSimón Planas13 March 2020 · 18 days
- 12,768 haIndependencia29 February 2020 · 16 days
- 12,477 haIndependenciaApril 2020 · 17 days
- 11,740 haSan Carlos13 March 2020 · 21 days
- 11,411 haMachiques de Perijá29 February 2020 · 21 days
- 11,344 haPedro Camejo2 February 2020 · 21 days
- 11,200 haAnzoátegui13 March 2020 · 19 days
- 10,762 haBriónApril 2020 · 30 days
- 10,394 haMachiques de Perijá25 February 2020 · 22 days
- 9,215 haMuñoz18 March 2020 · 11 days
- 8,964 haFrancisco de Miranda12 April 2020 · 5 days
- 8,088 haAchaguas20 March 2020 · 12 days
- 7,873 haPedraza13 March 2020 · 19 days
- 7,771 haMaturín16 April 2020 · 3 days
- 7,646 haFalcónMarch 2020 · 16 days
- 7,071 haMuñoz3 March 2020 · 7 days
- 6,789 haPedro Camejo3 February 2020 · 14 days
- 6,737 haLas Mercedes28 February 2020 · 10 days
Fires in 2019 · 298
- 28,615 haIndependencia1 March 2019 · 25 days
- 14,229 haMachiques de Perijá1 February 2019 · 19 days
- 14,047 haMaturín4 March 2019 · 5 days
- 12,697 haPao de San Juan Bautista12 February 2019 · 27 days
- 7,845 haSucre28 March 2019 · 14 days
- 7,569 haMaturín3 February 2019 · 14 days
- 7,247 haSucre2 April 2019 · 16 days
- 7,022 haFrancisco de Miranda6 April 2019 · 4 days
- 6,887 haPedraza25 February 2019 · 11 days
- 6,715 haIndependencia29 March 2019 · 19 days
- 6,697 haPedro Camejo30 January 2019 · 6 days
- 6,636 haMaturín15 February 2019 · 9 days
- 6,479 haMaturín24 March 2019 · 6 days
- 6,412 haPedro Camejo10 February 2019 · 7 days
- 6,112 haPao de San Juan Bautista12 February 2019 · 22 days
- 5,923 haMuñoz24 March 2019 · 6 days
- 5,560 haMaturín18 February 2019 · 4 days
- 5,555 haRómulo GallegosMarch 2019 · 4 days
- 5,420 haMaturín6 April 2019 · 6 days
- 5,343 haGirardot5 February 2019 · 11 days
Fires in 2018 · 106
- 20,000 haMaturín10 April 2018 · 6 days
- 16,909 haIndependencia13 March 2018 · 28 days
- 7,108 haCedeñoApril 2018 · 22 days
- 6,711 haPedro Camejo14 December 2018 · 5 days
- 6,333 haLeonardo Infante10 March 2018 · 20 days
- 6,066 haIndependencia11 March 2018 · 8 days
- 5,944 haUracoaApril 2018 · 8 days
- 5,210 haMaturín2 April 2018 · 2 days
- 5,154 haIndependenciaApril 2018 · 12 days
- 5,034 haPedro Camejo12 March 2018 · 9 days
- 4,744 haIndependencia22 March 2018 · 9 days
- 4,387 haIndependencia24 March 2018 · 7 days
- 4,329 haRómulo Gallegos17 March 2018 · 7 days
- 4,310 haLas Mercedes23 March 2018 · 5 days
- 4,121 haPedro Camejo14 December 2018 · 7 days
- 4,004 haSan Fernando20 March 2018 · 7 days
- 3,954 haRaúl LeoniApril 2018 · 4 days
- 3,927 haIndependencia15 March 2018 · 3 days
- 3,859 haPedro Camejo11 March 2018 · 7 days
- 3,676 haPedro Camejo26 January 2018 · 8 days
Fires in 2017 · 60
- 10,750 haFrancisco de Miranda4 April 2017 · 9 days
- 6,430 haPedro Camejo12 February 2017 · 9 days
- 5,824 haMuñozFebruary 2017 · 10 days
- 5,743 haMaturínAugust 2017 · 3 days
- 4,662 haPedro CamejoApril 2017 · 4 days
- 4,065 haPedro Camejo13 March 2017 · 5 days
- 3,451 haRómulo GallegosApril 2017 · 8 days
- 3,403 haPedro Camejo4 February 2017 · 5 days
- 3,297 haFrancisco de Miranda3 April 2017 · 6 days
- 3,144 haPedro Camejo6 February 2017 · 3 days
- 2,980 haRaúl LeoniApril 2017 · 4 days
- 2,935 haPedro Camejo10 February 2017 · 11 days
- 2,904 haJosé Gregorio MonagasMarch 2017 · 5 days
- 2,870 haSanta María de IpireMarch 2017 · 7 days
- 2,844 haSan FernandoApril 2017 · 11 days
- 2,775 haPedro Camejo1 February 2017 · 8 days
- 2,739 haAchaguasApril 2017 · 5 days
- 2,713 haJosé Gregorio Monagas4 April 2017 · 8 days
- 2,540 haOrtíz4 April 2017 · 4 days
- 2,517 haAchaguas27 February 2017 · 1 day
Fires in 2016 · 238
- 26,276 haRosario de Perijá2 March 2016 · 34 days
- 21,850 haTucupita15 March 2016 · 36 days
- 21,832 haJesús María SemprumFebruary 2016 · 33 days
- 12,668 haPao de San Juan Bautista4 February 2016 · 39 days
- 12,641 haUracoaMarch 2016 · 4 days
- 11,604 haRómulo Gallegos23 January 2016 · 16 days
- 10,498 haTucupitaApril 2016 · 10 days
- 9,409 haMaturínApril 2016 · 3 days
- 9,252 haMaturín29 February 2016 · 3 days
- 8,633 haMaturín26 March 2016 · 3 days
- 7,686 haTucupita10 March 2016 · 11 days
- 6,088 haAutónomo Alto Orinoco17 January 2016 · 16 days
- 6,063 haPedro Camejo2 March 2016 · 11 days
- 5,811 haCatatumbo5 March 2016 · 29 days
- 5,756 haJesús María Semprum14 March 2016 · 17 days
- 5,745 haLas MercedesFebruary 2016 · 16 days
- 5,732 haSanta María de Ipire16 March 2016 · 15 days
- 5,717 haFrancisco de Miranda25 March 2016 · 11 days
- 5,642 haPao de San Juan Bautista3 March 2016 · 12 days
- 5,623 haAutónomo Manapiare26 February 2016 · 12 days
Frequently asked questions
- How much land burns in Venezuela in an average year?
- According to Copernicus GWIS estimates, an average of 4,777,267 hectares burn in Venezuela each year (2016–2025 average).
- What was the worst wildfire year in Venezuela?
- The worst year in Venezuela since 2016 was 2020, with 8,011,009 hectares burned according to Copernicus GWIS.
- What is the largest wildfire recorded in Venezuela?
- Largest fire recorded by WorldFires in Venezuela since 2016: Sucre fire, 3 April 2024, with 45,916 hectares burned — perimeter rebuilt from heat detections (Copernicus GWIS).
- When is wildfire season in Venezuela?
- In Venezuela, 85% of the area burned in fires with a WorldFires page since 2016 burned in February–April; the month with the most burned area: March.
- How many wildfires has Venezuela had in 2026?
- Fires counted by Copernicus GWIS in Venezuela so far in 2026 (up to week 42): 8,404, against an average of 13,711 per full year in 2016–2025. Venezuela is running below the usual for this point in the year, at 76 % of the average: 3,124,306 hectares burned up to week 42, against an average of 4,116,980 in 2012–2025 (Copernicus GWIS).
- Which regions of Venezuela burn the most?
- Regions of Venezuela with the most area burned in fires with a WorldFires page since 2016: Apure (2,711,382 ha), Guárico (1,027,448 ha), Monagas (703,590 ha).