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Burned Area, 2025

2025, as GWIS’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is how much land burned in a year — forest, savanna, grassland and farmland — as seen from NASA's MODIS satellites and added up per country by the European Commission's Global Wildfire Information System. It counts wildfires and every other vegetation fire, including fires set to clear fields.

Burned Area, 2025 covers 209 countries on 6 measures. Australia is highest, at 50,562,034.820; 51 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 13,824.019. Against 2024, 166 values changed (72 up, 94 down), the same countries are covered.

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Burned Area · Data for 2025

HighestAustralia

50,562,034.820

Lowest51 countries share it

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Burned Area, 2025, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 209 countries · select a heading to sort

Burned Area, 2025: every country, as published by European Commission Joint Research Centre — Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS).
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand50,562,034.820290,926.9053,031,645.91346,692,017.980533,255.08014,188.942
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa34,832,920.5381,998,901.57920,305,422.54912,351,846.456165,695.03311,054.921
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa31,021,312.3373,434,689.04926,068,514.2081,464,401.47013,866.95539,840.655
South SudanSSDEastern Africa26,577,448.458381,448.45917,092,905.2428,480,863.659601,344.80920,886.289
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa22,771,314.0533,472,812.41315,183,516.3353,947,014.89038,101.918129,868.497
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa16,489,177.7292,223,134.01912,178,810.0972,040,824.40443,511.3142,897.895
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa13,195,626.7732,625,683.4358,907,991.4901,623,227.42337,393.5401,330.885
BrazilBRASouth America10,291,659.862611,541.1035,413,584.4243,625,627.926630,516.92710,389.482
SudanSDNNorthern Africa9,569,032.8821,438.214281,074.0688,343,095.729943,339.00785.864
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa8,400,109.080862,970.8075,055,684.0082,443,760.19526,016.63511,677.435
MaliMLIWestern Africa7,302,516.3410.00049,779.3466,724,741.055523,359.3134,636.627
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6,519,055.12627,068.460658,014.7012,890,250.2442,941,768.3271,953.394
ChadTCDMiddle Africa6,345,782.63361,907.564249,454.8445,305,954.552728,251.013214.660
RussiaRUSEastern Europe5,339,033.490358,351.1962,879,324.1251,162,484.050930,609.7578,264.362
IndiaINDSouthern Asia5,299,514.819998,098.440774,467.032245,998.8423,280,542.652407.853
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia4,876,701.6222,905,319.2901,254,765.814377,434.346337,786.8891,395.283
CanadaCANNorthern America4,420,165.5581,029,717.6693,225,246.56890,800.62222,625.02551,775.674
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4,355,081.038287,277.7082,770,320.4441,007,822.472281,868.3057,792.109
SenegalSENWestern Africa3,934,672.0121,438.214185,529.4913,263,391.410484,033.841279.056
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3,655,100.5650.0000.0003,452,248.119202,272.867579.579
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa3,405,516.933102,864.4411,343,527.1701,931,369.95214,747.05413,008.316
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa3,170,293.95545,700.836154,425.4512,959,542.0615,881.6494,743.958
VenezuelaVENSouth America2,916,395.68428,399.3481,149,346.9391,686,573.19949,908.1442,168.054
GhanaGHAWestern Africa2,735,288.1529,015.667503,417.5221,752,194.353467,741.2512,919.359
ChinaCHNEastern Asia2,623,064.62041,643.78991,766.59171,416.9452,415,940.4432,296.852

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Australia50,562,034.820
  2. Angola34,832,920.538
  3. DR Congo31,021,312.337
  4. South Sudan26,577,448.458
  5. Zambia22,771,314.053

Lowest

  1. Samoashared0.000
  2. Vanuatushared0.000
  3. United States Virgin Islandsshared0.000
  4. Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesshared0.000
  5. Tuvalushared0.000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13,824.019. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Burned forest (hectares)

    HighestZambia3,472,812.413

    Lowest99 share it

    Middle country: 64.398

  • Burned savanna (hectares)

    HighestDR Congo26,068,514.208

    Lowest70 share it

    Middle country: 643.975

  • Burned shrubland and grassland (hectares)

    HighestAustralia46,692,017.980

    Lowest64 share it

    Middle country: 3,219.880

  • Burned cropland (hectares)

    HighestIndia3,280,542.652

    Lowest70 share it

    Middle country: 1,459.680

  • Other burned land (hectares)

    HighestZambia129,868.497

    Lowest112 share it

    Middle country: 0.000

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 209 in both
  • 72 · 94rose · fell
  • 43unchanged

Rose most

  • Australia35,172,574.937 → 50,562,034.820+15,389,459.883
  • Sudan6,395,111.197 → 9,569,032.882+3,173,921.685
  • Myanmar2,655,800.050 → 4,876,701.622+2,220,901.572
  • India3,461,349.657 → 5,299,514.819+1,838,165.162
  • Namibia1,057,022.243 → 2,151,996.129+1,094,973.886

Fell most

  • Brazil25,085,527.769 → 10,291,659.862−14,793,867.907
  • Bolivia11,002,437.628 → 1,590,899.843−9,411,537.785
  • Russia9,773,538.226 → 5,339,033.490−4,434,504.736
  • South Sudan29,682,314.444 → 26,577,448.458−3,104,865.986
  • Angola37,843,057.640 → 34,832,920.538−3,010,137.102

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from GWIS’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2025.

  • 154 distinct values among 209

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 51 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 209 countries has every column.

05The files

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  • .csv

    For a spreadsheet or code

    209 rows · 16 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download burned-area-2025-nations-inquiry.csv
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    The publisher’s original

    GWIS’s own file, on its own site.

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

European Commission Joint Research Centre — Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) (2025). Burned Area, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/burned-area/2025

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