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Ramdane Djamel fire, 22 July 2026 رمضان جمال · Ramdane Djamel, Beni Bechir, Azzaba

Out · last detection 22 Jul 2026, 12:27 UTC

The fire started on 22 July 2026 in Ramdane Djamel, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 700 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 25th largest in Skikda since 2016 (of 102 with a page). Number 73 in Algeria in 2026, of 197.

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Burnt area
700ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 1day
22 Jul 2026 – 22 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
3
communes
Started on
22 Jul
2026
Heat detections
22
in a single hotspot: 64 MW
Danger at start
73
Very extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
239MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jul22 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

22 Jul 2026 · 239 MW · 22

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

The weather it burned in

46°high
24km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.4 mm on 27 Jul.

This area had burned before

7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 50 ha in 2020, 1 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.4% of the area of London (7 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Ramdane Djamel رمضان جمال 27,194 inhabitants · 7.0 km from the centre where it started
    473 ha reached on 22 Jul
    4.1 %
  2. Beni Bechir بني بشير 9,640 inhabitants · 3.6 km from the centre
    186 ha reached on 22 Jul
    4.2 %
  3. Azzaba عزابة 56,922 inhabitants · 9.3 km from the centre
    42 ha reached on 22 Jul
    0.2 %

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

  • Mixed forest60 %
  • Other natural land35 %
  • Agricultural areas5.5 %

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)
22 Jul 45.5 °C 10 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 73
23 Jul after 43.8 °C 11 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 70
24 Jul after 38.8 °C 24 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
25 Jul after 38.5 °C 18 % 20 km/h 0.4 mm Extreme 52
26 Jul after 35.5 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 60
27 Jul after 30.5 °C 41 % 41 km/h 2.4 mm Moderate 16

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jul 2026
After · 29 Jul 2026

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 24 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 277 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 101: 6.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak277 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM10333 µg/m³
Optical depth0.86
202122232425
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 · 22Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ramdane Djamel fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (22 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 22 July 2026 (1 day from 22 July 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 700 hectares (7.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Ramdane Djamel (473 ha, 4.1 %); Beni Bechir (186 ha, 4.2 %); Azzaba (42 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire came within 3.6 km of the centre of Beni Bechir, the closest of the areas it touched. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 45.5 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 24 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 73, class Very extreme.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

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

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 22 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.