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Berrahal fire, August 2025 برحال · Berrahal

Out · last measured on 28 Aug 2025

The fire started on 28 August 2025 in Berrahal, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 110 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 48th largest in Annaba since 2016 (of 50 with a page). Number 31 in Algeria in 2025, of 35.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
110ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
28 Aug 2025 – 28 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
communes
Started on
28 Aug
2025
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

36°high
37km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.1 mm on 7 Sept.

This area had burned before

95% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 101 ha in 2020, 87 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 104 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Berrahal برحال 22,631 inhabitants · 35.5 km from the town where it started
    110 ha
    0.6 %

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 land93 %
  • Agricultural areas7.3 %

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)
28 Aug 35.6 °C 39 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
29 Aug after 32.3 °C 40 % 38 km/h 0.4 mm High 34
30 Aug after 32.2 °C 44 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
31 Aug after 36.3 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Sept after 38.6 °C 31 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
2 Sept after 30.1 °C 51 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
3 Sept after 33.3 °C 34 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
4 Sept after 36.5 °C 35 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Sept after 33.7 °C 45 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
6 Sept after 35.9 °C 39 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
7 Sept after 39.8 °C 27 % 30 km/h 3.1 mm Moderate 21

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 21 Aug 2025
After · 4 Sept 2025

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 · Copernicus

On 27 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak22 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1077 µg/m³
Optical depth0.70
262728293031
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Berrahal fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 28 August 2025 and 28 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 110 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Berrahal (110 ha, 0.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 35.5 km of Berrahal. 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 35.6 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, 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.