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Ibn Badis fire, July 2016 ابن باديس · Ibn Badis, Ouled Hbaba

Out · last measured on 31 Jul 2016

The fire started on 31 July 2016 in Ibn Badis, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 148 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 25th largest in Constantine since 2016 (of 31 with a page). Number 49 in Algeria in 2016, of 62.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
148ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
31 Jul 2016 – 31 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
31 Jul
2016
Danger at start
43
Very high · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

34°high
35km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 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. Ibn Badis ابن باديس 18,735 inhabitants · 802.3 km from the town where it started
    83 ha
    0.3 %
  2. Ouled Hbaba أولاد أحبابة 8,369 inhabitants · 13.1 km from the town
    65 ha
    0.3 %

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

  • Mixed forest55 %
  • Other natural land43 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.0 %

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)
31 Jul 34.5 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
1 Aug after 32.2 °C 28 % 41 km/h 0.4 mm Very high 44
2 Aug after 27.4 °C 43 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Aug after 29.1 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Aug after 32.2 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Aug after 30.3 °C 34 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
6 Aug after 25.1 °C 36 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Aug after 25.7 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
8 Aug after 26.5 °C 38 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
9 Aug after 29.1 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Aug after 25.7 °C 46 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jul 2016
After · 7 Aug 2016

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 31 July 2016 the air beside the fire reached 76 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 31: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak76 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1087 µg/m³
293031123
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 Ibn Badis fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 31 July 2016 and 31 July 2016: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 148 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ibn Badis (83 ha, 0.3 %); Ouled Hbaba (65 ha, 0.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 13.1 km of Ouled Hbaba. 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 34.5 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, class Very 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

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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.