Dataset
Annual area burnt by wildfires by region
owid.annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis
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About
Total land area burnt by wildfires each year, in hectares, across all land cover types.
Cite as: Global Wildfire Information System (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Yearly burned area across all land types – GWIS (MODIS)” [dataset]. Global Wildfire Information System, “Global Yearly Burned Area by Land Cover Type” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2002–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-10-12
- Units
- hectares
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| all | number | Yearly burned area across all land types (hectares) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |