Azeffoun fire, 2 October 2022 أزفون · Azeffoun
The fire started on 2 October 2022 in Azeffoun, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 127 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
Number 47 in Algeria in 2022, of 58.
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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.
- Burnt area
- 127ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 2 Oct 2022 – 2 Oct 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- communes
- Started on
- 2 Oct
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 5
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 5 Oct.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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127 ha1.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Other natural land52 %
- Mixed forest47 %
- Broadleaved forest0.8 %
Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct | 28.1 °C | 48 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 3 Oct after | 28.6 °C | 51 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 4 Oct after | 26.3 °C | 64 % | 28 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 8 |
| 5 Oct after | 25.6 °C | 61 % | 28 km/h | 1.4 mm | Very low 3 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 4 October 2022 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Other fires nearby
- 3,611 haAzazga عزازقةAugust 2021 · 4 days · 19 km away
- 7,342 haZekri زكريAugust 2021 · 6 days · 24 km away
- 6,262 haIloula Oumalou إيلولة أمالوAugust 2021 · 9 days · 33 km away
- 26,745 haIboudraren إبودرارنAugust 2021 · 7 days · 36 km away
- 14,233 haTaourirt Ighil تاوريرت آغيلJuly 2023 · 8 days · 39 km away
- 3,656 haBeni Zmenzer بني زمنزرAugust 2021 · 5 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Azeffoun fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 2 October 2022 and 2 October 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 127 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Azeffoun (127 ha, 1.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Azeffoun and came within 4.0 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.1 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 25 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 5, class Low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Algeria (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 14 · 1021 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.