How long did the Oudjana fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 30 July 2017 and 4 August 2017: 6 days between the first and last image with fire.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,050 hectares (10.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Oudjana (1,025 ha, 17 %); Chahna (20 ha, 0.2 %); Djimla (7 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 4.3 km of Djimla. 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 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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 · 2017-07-30 → 2017-08-04

Oudjana fire, July 2017 وجانة · Oudjana, Chahna, Djimla

Out · last detection 4 Aug 2017, 02:24 UTC

The fire started on 30 July 2017 in Oudjana, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 1,050 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 10th largest in Jijel since 2016 (of 110 with a page). Number 17 in Algeria in 2017, of 173.

Burnt area: 1,050ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 6days; 30 Jul 2017 – 4 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit: 3; communes
Started on: 30 Jul; 2017
Heat detections: 115; in a single hotspot: 59 MW
Danger at start: 39; Very high · FWI index
Energy released: 1.4GW; sum of detected power

Play back 4 Aug 2017

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Jul4 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

38°high

53km/h · peak gust

11%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 9 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

Oudjana وجانة 9,580 inhabitants · 5.1 km from the town where it started

1,025 ha reached on 29 Jul

17 %
Chahna بلدية الشحنة 8,781 inhabitants · 6.6 km from the town

20 ha reached on 1 Aug

0.2 %
Djimla جيملة 17,373 inhabitants · 4.3 km from the town

7 ha reached on 1 Aug

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 land74 %
Mixed forest26 %

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)
29 Jul	34.7 °C	20 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
30 Jul	33.9 °C	18 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
31 Jul	37.5 °C	12 %	48 km/h	3.6 mm	High 26
1 Aug	36.6 °C	15 %	38 km/h	1.8 mm	High 27
2 Aug	34.5 °C	22 %	35 km/h	1.9 mm	High 22
3 Aug	34.8 °C	18 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
4 Aug	33.9 °C	27 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
5 Aug after	35.4 °C	14 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
6 Aug after	33.4 °C	22 %	42 km/h	0.4 mm	Very high 40
7 Aug after	31.0 °C	43 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
8 Aug after	35.9 °C	11 %	36 km/h	0.6 mm	Very high 40
9 Aug after	32.6 °C	23 %	52 km/h	1.2 mm	High 30

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 23 Jul 2017

After · 11 Aug 2017

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 1 August 2017 the air beside the fire reached 97 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 47: 3.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak97 µg/m³

Days over the guideline9 days

PM10104 µg/m³

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 · 115Every 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 Oudjana fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 30 July 2017 and 4 August 2017: 6 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 1,050 hectares (10.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Oudjana (1,025 ha, 17 %); Chahna (20 ha, 0.2 %); Djimla (7 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 4.3 km of Djimla. 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 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 53 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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

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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