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Where The World Is Burning In 2026
Where The World Is Burning In 2026
As of August 1, 2026, wildfires and landscape fires have burned 112.3 million hectares of land across the globe, an area roughly the size of South Africa.
This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Sofie Gilbert, uses data from the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) via Our World in Data to show where that burning is concentrated in 2026 as of August 1.
The data includes prescribed burns, agricultural burns, and uncontrolled wildfires.
Africa Is the Epicenter of Global Fire Activity
More than half of the world’s burned land so far...
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