Burned Area

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: burned-area-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Burned area (hectares)is built fromBurned forest (hectares)Burned savanna (hectares)Burned shrubland and grassland (hectares)Burned cropland (hectares)Other burned land (hectares)

Every column in the newest file of Burned Area: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	209	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	209	0
Burned area (hectares)burned_areaHeadline	The headline figure: Burned area (hectares).	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.00051 share it50,562,034.820Australiamiddle 13,824.019	154	0
Burned forest (hectares)forest_haPart of the headline	Part of the burned area that was forest, in hectares.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.00099 share it3,472,812.413Zambiamiddle 64.398	102	0
Burned savanna (hectares)savanna_haPart of the headline	Part of the burned area that was savanna, in hectares.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.00070 share it26,068,514.208DR Congomiddle 643.975	130	0
Burned shrubland and grassland (hectares)shrub_grass_haPart of the headline	Part of the burned area that was shrubland or grassland, in hectares.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.00064 share it46,692,017.980Australiamiddle 3,219.880	138	0
Burned cropland (hectares)cropland_haPart of the headline	Part of the burned area that was cropland, including fields burned after harvest, in hectares.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.00070 share it3,280,542.652Indiamiddle 1,459.680	133	0
Other burned land (hectares)other_haPart of the headline	Part of the burned area on any other kind of land, in hectares.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.000112 share it129,868.497Zambiamiddle 0.000	77	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 24 years.

The same 209 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 16 places this site covers

GWIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AnguillaArubaChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoGibraltarKiribatiMaldivesMarshall IslandsMonacoNiueNorthern CyprusSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   European Commission Joint Research Centre — Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS)

   gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu

2. 2 · Their file

   Burned Area 2025

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3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   24 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as burned-area-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/burned-area

From the Global Wildfire Information System's country profiles, which total NASA's MODIS burned-area maps by country and by the kind of land that burned.

• Charted

  Burned Area by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability
  • Risk & Resilience

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