How long did the Ighram fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 9 August 2025 and 10 August 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 181 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ighram (176 ha, 3.5 %); Beni Melikeche (6 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.3 km of Beni Melikeche. 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 29.5 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class 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.

DZ · Algeria · 2025-08-09 → 2025-08-10

Ighram fire, August 2025 آغرام · Ighram, Beni Melikeche

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2025, 00:46 UTC

The fire started on 9 August 2025 in Ighram, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 181 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 25th largest in Tizi Ouzou since 2016 (of 46 with a page). Number 20 in Algeria in 2025, of 35.

The power measured by the satellite is low (2.5 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: 181ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 2days; 9 Aug 2025 – 10 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit: 2; communes
Started on: 9 Aug; 2025
Heat detections: 7; in a single hotspot: 2 MW
Danger at start: 31; High · FWI index
Energy released: 12MW; sum of detected power

Play back 10 Aug 2025

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Aug10 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

910

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

30°high

37km/h · peak gust

33%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

Ighram آغرام 12,387 inhabitants · 6.7 km from the town where it started

176 ha reached on 9 Aug

3.5 %
Beni Melikeche بني مليكش 8,497 inhabitants · 2.3 km from the town

6 ha

0.1 %

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 land75 %
Mixed forest25 %

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)
9 Aug	29.5 °C	33 %	35 km/h	0.1 mm	High 31
10 Aug	28.1 °C	35 %	37 km/h	0.4 mm	High 31
11 Aug after	27.0 °C	35 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
12 Aug after	27.5 °C	27 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
13 Aug after	28.6 °C	26 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
14 Aug after	29.3 °C	26 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
15 Aug after	29.8 °C	24 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
16 Aug after	28.2 °C	34 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
17 Aug after	29.8 °C	27 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
18 Aug after	31.4 °C	21 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
19 Aug after	32.6 °C	19 %	37 km/h	0.3 mm	Very high 38
20 Aug after	31.1 °C	26 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 2 Aug 2025

After · 17 Aug 2025

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 11 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1019 µg/m³

Optical depth0.30

78910111213

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 · 7Every 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 Ighram fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 9 August 2025 and 10 August 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 181 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ighram (176 ha, 3.5 %); Beni Melikeche (6 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.3 km of Beni Melikeche. 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 29.5 °C, humidity dropped to 33 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class 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

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