Azeffoun fire, August 2025 أزفون · Azeffoun, Akerrou
The fire started on 24 August 2025 in Azeffoun, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 207 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
Number 16 in Algeria in 2025, of 35.
- Burnt area
- 207ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 24 Aug 2025 – 25 Aug 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- communes
- Started on
- 24 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 15
- in a single hotspot: 32 MW
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
- Energy released
- 152MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 1 Sept.
This area had burned before
3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2023, 5 ha in 2024.
What happened to each town
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198 ha reached on 24 Aug1.6 %
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9 ha reached on 24 Aug0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
What burned
- Other natural land52 %
- Mixed forest48 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug | 28.8 °C | 37 % | 33 km/h | 1.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 25 Aug | 30.5 °C | 35 % | 33 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 27 |
| 26 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 28 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 27 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 29 % | 45 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 35 |
| 28 Aug after | 28.4 °C | 36 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 38 |
| 29 Aug after | 25.2 °C | 40 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 30 Aug after | 25.5 °C | 32 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 31 Aug after | 29.7 °C | 30 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 1 Sept after | 28.3 °C | 39 % | 46 km/h | 2.1 mm | Moderate 17 |
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 28 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 45 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 31: 2.1 times the WHO daily 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)
Detections table · 15Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 3,611 haAzazga عزازقةAugust 2021 · 3 days · 15 km away
- 7,342 haZekri زكريAugust 2021 · 6 days · 19 km away
- 6,262 haIloula Oumalou إيلولة أمالوAugust 2021 · 6 days · 28 km away
- 26,745 haIboudraren إبودرارنAugust 2021 · 7 days · 34 km away
- 14,233 haTaourirt Ighil تاوريرت آغيلJuly 2023 · 8 days · 34 km away
- 9,887 haToudja توجةAugust 2021 · 7 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Azeffoun fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 24 August 2025 and 25 August 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 207 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Azeffoun (198 ha, 1.6 %); Akerrou (9 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.7 km of Akerrou. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 30.5 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, class High.
- 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
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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.