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Bouandas fire, July 2026 بوعنداس · Algeria

Out · last measured on 14 Jul 2026

The fire started on 14 July 2026 in Bouandas, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 212 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 69th largest in Bejaia since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 134 in Algeria in 2026, of 197.

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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
212ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
14 Jul 2026 – 14 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
0
communes
Started on
14 Jul
2026
Danger at start
37
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

40°high
17km/h · peak gust
8%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

65% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 18 ha in 2020, 23 ha in 2021, 105 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 138 ha that had burned before.

What burned

  • Other natural land70 %
  • Mixed forest30 %

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)
14 Jul 40.5 °C 8 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jul after 40.3 °C 11 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Jul after 41.8 °C 8 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Jul after 40.3 °C 7 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
18 Jul after 40.8 °C 8 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
19 Jul after 41.0 °C 7 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
20 Jul after 41.7 °C 7 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 67
21 Jul after 41.2 °C 7 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
22 Jul after 41.2 °C 8 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 71
23 Jul after 40.5 °C 9 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
24 Jul after 38.2 °C 13 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Jul 2026
After · 21 Jul 2026

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 16 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1050 µg/m³
Optical depth0.56
121314151617
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 Bouandas fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 14 July 2026 and 14 July 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 212 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.5 °C, humidity dropped to 8 % and gusts hit 17 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, 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 · 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.

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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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.