How long did the فرنانة fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 July 2026 to 5 October 2026 (84 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 July 2026 to 14 July 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 306 hectares (3.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: فرنانة (167 ha, 0.4 %); Balta Bouawene (140 ha, 0.5 %).

Is the فرنانة fire still active?

No fire detections since 5 October 2026. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 43.8 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tunisia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

TN · Tunisia · 2026-07-14 → 2026-10-05

فرنانة fire, July 2026 فرنانة, Balta Bouawene

Out · last measured on 5 Oct 2026

The fire started on 14 July 2026 in فرنانة, Tunisia, and satellites saw it burning for 84 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 306 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 14th largest in Jendouba since 2016 (of 32 with a page). Number 17 in Tunisia in 2026, of 36.

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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: 306ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 84days; 14 Jul 2026 – 5 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit: 2; delegations
Started on: 14 Jul; 2026
Danger at start: 51; Extreme · FWI index

The weather it burned in

44°high

45km/h · peak gust

12%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 7 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

فرنانة where it started

167 ha

0.4 %
Balta Bouawene

140 ha

0.5 %

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

Agricultural areas72 %
Sclerophyllous scrub21 %
Other land cover3.9 %
Coniferous forest3.6 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area1.5 ha

Residents≈ 150

Inside the perimeter there were about 1.5 hectares of built-up land and about 150 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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	42.3 °C	16 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 51
15 Jul	39.7 °C	20 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 46
16 Jul	41.4 °C	19 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 47
17 Jul	43.5 °C	13 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 54
18 Jul	40.6 °C	17 %	33 km/h	0.2 mm	Extreme 53
19 Jul	43.1 °C	12 %	30 km/h	0.3 mm	Extreme 53
20 Jul	40.7 °C	16 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
21 Jul	43.1 °C	15 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
22 Jul	38.0 °C	20 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 53
23 Jul	38.3 °C	27 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 43
24 Jul	33.1 °C	36 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
25 Jul	39.8 °C	29 %	38 km/h	0.2 mm	Very high 40
26 Jul	32.9 °C	52 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
27 Jul	28.3 °C	57 %	43 km/h	0.1 mm	High 26
28 Jul	29.4 °C	56 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
29 Jul	30.8 °C	55 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
30 Jul	31.8 °C	54 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
31 Jul	33.7 °C	44 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
1 Aug	33.9 °C	41 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
2 Aug	36.5 °C	26 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
3 Aug	38.1 °C	24 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
4 Aug	38.1 °C	28 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
5 Aug	31.2 °C	57 %	39 km/h	0.1 mm	High 27
6 Aug	30.3 °C	60 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
7 Aug	31.5 °C	55 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
8 Aug	31.7 °C	45 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
9 Aug	34.3 °C	32 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
10 Aug	36.0 °C	31 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
11 Aug	36.4 °C	28 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
12 Aug	37.1 °C	26 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
13 Aug	35.7 °C	35 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
14 Aug	32.8 °C	48 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
15 Aug	33.6 °C	45 %	27 km/h	0.6 mm	High 24
16 Aug	34.0 °C	41 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
17 Aug	34.8 °C	36 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
18 Aug	31.6 °C	50 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
19 Aug	31.3 °C	42 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
20 Aug	34.5 °C	36 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
21 Aug	37.1 °C	34 %	45 km/h	0.5 mm	Very high 39
22 Aug	34.9 °C	49 %	31 km/h	0.4 mm	High 30
23 Aug	38.6 °C	27 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
24 Aug	36.1 °C	41 %	28 km/h	0.1 mm	High 34
25 Aug	34.2 °C	47 %	39 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
26 Aug	43.8 °C	16 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Extreme 50
27 Aug	43.5 °C	16 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 50
28 Aug	33.5 °C	32 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
29 Aug	39.6 °C	26 %	37 km/h	1.5 mm	Very high 41
30 Aug	31.9 °C	63 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 21
31 Aug	32.6 °C	57 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
1 Sept	33.9 °C	40 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
2 Sept	34.4 °C	41 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
3 Sept	31.6 °C	45 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
4 Sept	29.5 °C	55 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
5 Sept	30.6 °C	52 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
6 Sept	31.6 °C	39 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
7 Sept	32.2 °C	53 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
8 Sept	31.4 °C	59 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
9 Sept	35.7 °C	30 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
10 Sept	31.7 °C	49 %	33 km/h	2.1 mm	Moderate 14
11 Sept	27.8 °C	60 %	41 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 18
12 Sept	22.9 °C	80 %	28 km/h	21.2 mm	Very low 0
13 Sept	26.2 °C	62 %	35 km/h	0.4 mm	Very low 4
14 Sept	26.8 °C	58 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
15 Sept	26.5 °C	62 %	31 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 11
16 Sept	28.6 °C	49 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
17 Sept	28.5 °C	63 %	24 km/h	0.8 mm	Low 10
18 Sept	28.8 °C	61 %	27 km/h	7.7 mm	Very low 3
19 Sept	25.1 °C	76 %	22 km/h	11.5 mm	Very low 0
20 Sept	26.3 °C	67 %	35 km/h	3.0 mm	Very low 0
21 Sept	26.0 °C	70 %	31 km/h	0.8 mm	Very low 1
22 Sept	26.4 °C	64 %	36 km/h	0.3 mm	Very low 3
23 Sept	27.0 °C	60 %	29 km/h	1.0 mm	Very low 4
24 Sept	27.2 °C	58 %	25 km/h	0.3 mm	Low 6
25 Sept	26.1 °C	65 %	39 km/h	0.1 mm	Low 8
26 Sept	25.4 °C	69 %	28 km/h	0.6 mm	Low 6
27 Sept	26.3 °C	52 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
28 Sept	29.3 °C	40 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
29 Sept	29.8 °C	46 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
30 Sept	29.8 °C	48 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
1 Oct	29.2 °C	51 %	29 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 15
2 Oct	28.6 °C	49 %	32 km/h	0.9 mm	Low 11
3 Oct	29.2 °C	48 %	41 km/h	1.4 mm	Low 10
4 Oct	28.8 °C	47 %	31 km/h	0.9 mm	Low 10
5 Oct	29.2 °C	47 %	20 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 12
6 Oct after	29.8 °C	44 %	33 km/h	0.4 mm	Moderate 17
7 Oct after	31.0 °C	39 %	24 km/h	2.2 mm	Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Jul 2026

After · 12 Oct 2026

Before After

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The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 17 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1052 µg/m³

Optical depth0.42

WHO 15

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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the فرنانة fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 July 2026 to 5 October 2026 (84 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 July 2026 to 14 July 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 306 hectares (3.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: فرنانة (167 ha, 0.4 %); Balta Bouawene (140 ha, 0.5 %).
Is the فرنانة fire still active?: No fire detections since 5 October 2026. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 43.8 °C, humidity dropped to 12 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Tunisia (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: 198 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

26 October 2026 Last day with fire: 14 July 2026 → 5 October 2026.

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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 14 July 2026 to 14 July 2026. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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 ADM2 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.

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