How long did the Darguina fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 10 July 2026 and 10 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 106 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Darguina (66 ha, 0.8 %); Tamridjet (41 ha, 0.8 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.2 km of Tamridjet. 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 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 14 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 15, class Moderate.

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.

DZ · Algeria · 2026-07-10 → 2026-07-10

Darguina fire, 10 July 2026 درقينة · Darguina, Tamridjet

Out · last detection 10 Jul 2026, 12:53 UTC

The fire started on 10 July 2026 in Darguina, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 106 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 100th largest in Jijel since 2016 (of 110 with a page). Number 193 in Algeria in 2026, of 197.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.6 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: 106ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 10 Jul 2026 – 10 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit: 2; communes
Started on: 10 Jul; 2026
Heat detections: 1; in a single hotspot: 15 MW
Danger at start: 15; Moderate · FWI index
Energy released: 15MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jul10 Jul

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

36°high

14km/h · peak gust

22%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

51% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 53 ha in 2019, 5 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 54 ha that had burned before.

53 ha Darguina fire, August 2019 261 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Darguina درقينة 14,146 inhabitants · 9.2 km from the town where it started

66 ha reached on 10 Jul

0.8 %
Tamridjet تامريجت 8,413 inhabitants · 2.2 km from the town

41 ha

0.8 %

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 land92 %
Mixed forest8.3 %

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)
10 Jul	35.5 °C	22 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 15
11 Jul after	36.7 °C	21 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
12 Jul after	37.5 °C	17 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
13 Jul after	31.5 °C	23 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
14 Jul after	32.0 °C	26 %	27 km/h	0.1 mm	High 30
15 Jul after	36.0 °C	20 %	25 km/h	0.3 mm	High 31
16 Jul after	38.8 °C	15 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
17 Jul after	36.8 °C	17 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
18 Jul after	37.8 °C	17 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
19 Jul after	38.2 °C	16 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
20 Jul after	38.8 °C	16 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 3 Jul 2026

After · 17 Jul 2026

Before After

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 12 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1038 µg/m³

Optical depth0.44

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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 · 1Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Darguina fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 10 July 2026 and 10 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 106 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Darguina (66 ha, 0.8 %); Tamridjet (41 ha, 0.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.2 km of Tamridjet. 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 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 14 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 15, class Moderate.
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

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned