How long did the Kendira fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 14 August 2022 and 15 August 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 117 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Kendira (117 ha, 2.6 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.3 km of Kendira. 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 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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.

DZ · Algeria · 2022-08-14 → 2022-08-15

Kendira fire, August 2022 كنديرة · Kendira

Out · last detection 14 Aug 2022, 13:21 UTC

The fire started on 14 August 2022 in Kendira, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 117 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 87th largest in Bejaia since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 49 in Algeria in 2022, of 58.

The power measured by the satellite is low (10.0 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: 117ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 2days; 14 Aug 2022 – 15 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit: 1; communes
Started on: 14 Aug; 2022
Heat detections: 5; in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Danger at start: 47; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 36MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Aug15 Aug

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

37°high

39km/h · peak gust

19%lowest humidity

It had gone 41 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

3% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4 ha in 2021.

What happened to each town

Kendira كنديرة 5,364 inhabitants · 1.3 km from the town where it started

117 ha reached on 14 Aug

2.6 %

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

Mixed forest56 %
Other natural land44 %

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)
14 Aug	37.2 °C	19 %	34 km/h	0.3 mm	Very high 47
15 Aug	35.4 °C	21 %	39 km/h	1.0 mm	Very high 39
16 Aug after	33.1 °C	26 %	50 km/h	0.1 mm	High 37
17 Aug after	34.0 °C	21 %	51 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
18 Aug after	29.7 °C	23 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
19 Aug after	25.9 °C	52 %	35 km/h	0.6 mm	High 24
20 Aug after	28.0 °C	38 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
21 Aug after	29.4 °C	32 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
22 Aug after	29.8 °C	31 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
23 Aug after	27.4 °C	44 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
24 Aug after	28.9 °C	37 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
25 Aug after	30.7 °C	26 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34

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 Aug 2022

After · 22 Aug 2022

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 17 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³

Days over the guideline1 day

PM1067 µg/m³

Optical depth1.20

WHO 15

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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 · 5Every 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 Kendira fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 14 August 2022 and 15 August 2022: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 117 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Kendira (117 ha, 2.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.3 km of Kendira. 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 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, 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

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