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Doui Thabet fire, 11 July 2026 ذوي ثابت · Doui Thabet

Out · last measured on 11 Jul 2026

The fire started on 11 July 2026 in Doui Thabet, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,092 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

Number 35 in Algeria in 2026, of 197.

Burnt area
2,092ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
11 Jul 2026 – 11 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
communes
Started on
11 Jul
2026
Heat detections
108
in a single hotspot: 612 MW
Danger at start
136
Very extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jul11 Jul

The weather it burned in

40°high
63km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 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. Doui Thabet ذوي ثابت 5,158 inhabitants · 3.4 km from the town where it started
    2,096 ha reached on 18 Jul
    9.6 %

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 land50 %
  • Mixed forest36 %
  • Agricultural areas13 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.2 %

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 Jul 40.0 °C 7 % 63 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 136
12 Jul after 40.3 °C 6 % 73 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 141
13 Jul after 41.5 °C 6 % 74 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 159
14 Jul after 41.7 °C 6 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 126
15 Jul after 41.3 °C 7 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 108
16 Jul after 41.0 °C 5 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 114
17 Jul after 40.5 °C 5 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 108
18 Jul after 41.3 °C 4 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 102
19 Jul after 41.1 °C 5 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 109
20 Jul after 41.9 °C 5 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 95
21 Jul after 41.4 °C 5 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 102

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jul 2026
After · 18 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 14 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1067 µg/m³
Optical depth0.59
91011121314
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)

Detections table · 108Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Doui Thabet fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 11 July 2026 and 11 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 2,092 hectares (20.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Doui Thabet (2,096 ha, 9.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.4 km of Doui Thabet. 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 40.0 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 63 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 136, class Very 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

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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.