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Wildfires in Algeria

1,041 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 857,755 hectares burned across 518 communes.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

These figures leave out 4 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The official record

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–202556,031 ha

Worst year2021 132,784 ha

With a page here1,041 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	366	353,520	EFFIS
2025	125	17,777	EFFIS
2024	66	8,158	EFFIS
2023	171	69,590	EFFIS
2022	99	52,556	EFFIS
2021	172	132,784	EFFIS
2020	534	114,704	EFFIS
2019	148	48,106	EFFIS
2018	15	1,554	EFFIS
2017	283	89,794	EFFIS
2016	87	25,288	EFFIS
2015	94	36,895	EFFIS
2014	144	63,426	EFFIS
2013	51	16,861	EFFIS
2012	356	200,980	EFFIS
2011	268	52,105	EFFIS
2010	231	70,189	EFFIS
2009	239	141,869	EFFIS
2008	0	—	EFFIS
2007	0	—	EFFIS
2006	0	—	EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026				156	179k	167k	214				345,978	Chekfa 48,071 ha
2025				987	4k	3k	309	2k	2k		12,873	Berrahal 2,490 ha
2024					3k	2k					5,519	Ifigha 926 ha
2023				4k	38k	6k	6k	11k	273		65,121	Taourirt Ighil 14,233 ha
2022	108			2k	3k	41k	1k	3k		205	50,315	Bouteldja 6,415 ha
2021				159	16k	111k	713	275			128,401	Iboudraren 26,745 ha
2020				2k	40k	48k	2k	2k	3k		98,016	Ouled Hellal 5,482 ha
2019				13k	9k	22k		393			44,119	Theniet El Had 6,218 ha
2018					908	157					1,065	Batna 376 ha
2017		152	525	2k	62k	18k	785	215			82,778	Buqus 7,171 ha
2016				1k	9k	6k	4k	3k	843		23,570	Bir El Hammam 1,508 ha