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africa-owid-annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis

country_name stringclasses 44 values	country_iso3 stringclasses 44 values	year int64 2k 2.02k	Yearly burned area across all land types float64 0 41.2M
Algeria	DZA	2,002	35,139.633
Algeria	DZA	2,003	90,564.51
Algeria	DZA	2,004	109,111
Algeria	DZA	2,005	111,343.46
Algeria	DZA	2,006	49,800.824
Algeria	DZA	2,007	196,434.17
Algeria	DZA	2,008	98,013.16
Algeria	DZA	2,009	129,095.734
Algeria	DZA	2,010	80,411.15
Algeria	DZA	2,011	63,002.324
Algeria	DZA	2,012	280,043.72
Algeria	DZA	2,013	31,554.832
Algeria	DZA	2,014	113,361.26
Algeria	DZA	2,015	46,945.86
Algeria	DZA	2,016	44,455.816
Algeria	DZA	2,017	124,587.9
Algeria	DZA	2,018	5,473.799
Algeria	DZA	2,019	70,579.78
Algeria	DZA	2,020	114,778
Algeria	DZA	2,021	144,164.77
Algeria	DZA	2,022	52,526.984
Algeria	DZA	2,023	60,319.09
Algeria	DZA	2,024	4,228.777
Angola	AGO	2,002	35,153,256
Angola	AGO	2,003	41,133,132
Angola	AGO	2,004	41,219,188
Angola	AGO	2,005	40,519,380
Angola	AGO	2,006	35,724,956
Angola	AGO	2,007	39,203,800
Angola	AGO	2,008	36,649,404
Angola	AGO	2,009	36,465,228
Angola	AGO	2,010	38,623,470
Angola	AGO	2,011	39,672,720
Angola	AGO	2,012	37,129,276
Angola	AGO	2,013	37,770,030
Angola	AGO	2,014	35,341,340
Angola	AGO	2,015	36,954,390
Angola	AGO	2,016	36,643,332
Angola	AGO	2,017	37,779,990
Angola	AGO	2,018	31,783,092
Angola	AGO	2,019	37,250,988
Angola	AGO	2,020	33,826,000
Angola	AGO	2,021	34,489,336
Angola	AGO	2,022	32,812,144
Angola	AGO	2,023	35,726,010
Angola	AGO	2,024	37,843,060
Benin	BEN	2,002	2,851,504.5
Benin	BEN	2,003	2,589,835.5
Benin	BEN	2,004	2,083,906.4
Benin	BEN	2,005	3,556,078.5
Benin	BEN	2,006	2,407,976.5
Benin	BEN	2,007	2,584,962.8
Benin	BEN	2,008	1,855,938.9
Benin	BEN	2,009	1,906,362.2
Benin	BEN	2,010	1,787,656
Benin	BEN	2,011	2,023,673.1
Benin	BEN	2,012	1,745,003.2
Benin	BEN	2,013	1,941,952.6
Benin	BEN	2,014	1,638,425.2
Benin	BEN	2,015	1,597,704.5
Benin	BEN	2,016	1,809,272.1
Benin	BEN	2,017	1,504,006
Benin	BEN	2,018	1,289,604.9
Benin	BEN	2,019	1,493,852.6
Benin	BEN	2,020	1,438,256
Benin	BEN	2,021	1,436,410
Benin	BEN	2,022	1,239,975.9
Benin	BEN	2,023	1,280,331.6
Benin	BEN	2,024	1,089,392.8
Botswana	BWA	2,002	8,172,292
Botswana	BWA	2,003	1,401,098.6
Botswana	BWA	2,004	1,787,741.9
Botswana	BWA	2,005	2,796,551.8
Botswana	BWA	2,006	5,170,741
Botswana	BWA	2,007	2,843,819.5
Botswana	BWA	2,008	10,985,115
Botswana	BWA	2,009	2,165,906
Botswana	BWA	2,010	13,384,119
Botswana	BWA	2,011	16,518,221
Botswana	BWA	2,012	4,967,030
Botswana	BWA	2,013	4,047,346.2
Botswana	BWA	2,014	2,858,931.5
Botswana	BWA	2,015	1,737,769.2
Botswana	BWA	2,016	1,470,884.1
Botswana	BWA	2,017	4,821,148
Botswana	BWA	2,018	2,755,144
Botswana	BWA	2,019	1,179,227.5
Botswana	BWA	2,020	3,215,028.8
Botswana	BWA	2,021	10,595,294
Botswana	BWA	2,022	7,466,472.5
Botswana	BWA	2,023	10,573,742
Botswana	BWA	2,024	2,191,343.2
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,002	3,859,283.8
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,003	3,479,810.2
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,004	3,761,313.8
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,005	4,018,367.2
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,006	2,884,690.8
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,007	3,097,417.5
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,008	2,572,598.5
Burkina Faso	BFA	2,009	2,919,444

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Annual Area Burnt By Wildfires Gwis | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,242 observations · 54 Africa countries · 2002–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,242 observations of Annual Area Burnt By Wildfires Gwis data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 2002–2024.

About the source

Source: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
License: cc-by-4.0
Topic: Annual Area Burnt By Wildfires Gwis

Geographic coverage

54 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
`AGO`	23	2002	2024
`BDI`	23	2002	2024
`BEN`	23	2002	2024
`BFA`	23	2002	2024
`BWA`	23	2002	2024
`CAF`	23	2002	2024
`CIV`	23	2002	2024
`CMR`	23	2002	2024
`COD`	23	2002	2024
`COG`	23	2002	2024
`COM`	23	2002	2024
`CPV`	23	2002	2024
`DJI`	23	2002	2024
`DZA`	23	2002	2024
`EGY`	23	2002	2024
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Algeria`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`DZA`
`year`	`int64`	—	`2002`
`Yearly burned area across all land types`	`float64`	—	`35139.633`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_iso3"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Yearly burned area across all land types")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_annual_area_burnt_by_wildfires_gwis_2024,
  title        = {Annual Area Burnt By Wildfires Gwis | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-area-burnt-by-wildfires-gwis

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