Bouandas fire, August 2024 بوعنداس · Algeria
The fire started on 11 August 2024 in Bouandas, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 115 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 89th largest in Bejaia since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 14 in Algeria in 2024, of 14.
The power measured by the satellite is low (3.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 115ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 11 Aug 2024 – 12 Aug 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 0
- communes
- Started on
- 11 Aug
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 12
- in a single hotspot: 4 MW
- Danger at start
- 33
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 34MW
- 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 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.7 mm on 14 Aug.
This area had burned before
7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8 ha in 2020.
What burned
- Other natural land77 %
- Mixed forest23 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug | 31.6 °C | 25 % | 34 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 33 |
| 12 Aug | 30.7 °C | 30 % | 35 km/h | 1.3 mm | High 23 |
| 13 Aug after | 28.1 °C | 45 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 14 Aug after | 26.6 °C | 50 % | 33 km/h | 10.7 mm | Very low 4 |
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 13 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 21: 1.4 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 · 12Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 6,699 haBoukhelifa بوخليفة10 August 2021 · 7 days · 9 km away
- 3,274 haTichy تيشيAugust 2026 · 3 days · 11 km away
- 18,731 haDarguina درقينة19 August 2026 · 13 days · 20 km away
- 3,720 haBeni Djellil بني جليلJuly 2023 · 6 days · 29 km away
- 3,042 haMelbou ملبوJuly 2023 · 3 days · 30 km away
- 9,887 haToudja توجةAugust 2021 · 7 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bouandas fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 11 August 2024 and 12 August 2024: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 115 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 31.6 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.