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Boucheghouf fire, July 2026 Boucheghouf

Out · last measured on 16 Jul 2026

The fire started on 16 July 2026 in Boucheghouf, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 427 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 18th largest in Annaba since 2016 (of 50 with a page). Number 86 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
427ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
16 Jul 2026 – 16 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
communes
Started on
16 Jul
2026
Danger at start
55
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

47°high
22km/h · peak gust
6%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Boucheghouf where it started
    428 ha
    2.2 %

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

  • Mixed forest74 %
  • Other natural land24 %
  • Agricultural areas1.4 %

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)
16 Jul 47.0 °C 6 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
17 Jul after 48.2 °C 5 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
18 Jul after 46.3 °C 6 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
19 Jul after 46.2 °C 6 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
20 Jul after 48.7 °C 5 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
21 Jul after 47.0 °C 5 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 91
22 Jul after 45.2 °C 8 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
23 Jul after 45.0 °C 8 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 82
24 Jul after 40.3 °C 19 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
25 Jul after 42.2 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm Very extreme 70
26 Jul after 38.2 °C 24 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 9 Jul 2026
After · 23 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 19 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1054 µg/m³
Optical depth0.61
141516171819
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 Boucheghouf fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 16 July 2026 and 16 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 427 hectares (4.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Boucheghouf (428 ha, 2.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 47.0 °C, humidity dropped to 6 % and gusts hit 22 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, class Extreme.
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.