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Tablat fire, August 2026 تابلاط · Tablat, Guerrouma

Out · last measured on 27 Aug 2026

The fire started on 27 August 2026 in Tablat, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 444 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 18th largest in Blida since 2016 (of 38 with a page). Number 85 in Algeria in 2026, of 197.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
444ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
27 Aug 2026 – 27 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
27 Aug
2026
Danger at start
94
Very extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

44°high
70km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 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. Tablat تابلاط 27,919 inhabitants · 6.7 km from the town where it started
    254 ha
    3.1 %
  2. Guerrouma قرومة 14,570 inhabitants · 2.9 km from the town
    191 ha
    2.0 %

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 land47 %
  • Agricultural areas30 %
  • Mixed forest23 %

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)
27 Aug 43.9 °C 7 % 70 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 94
28 Aug after 33.5 °C 17 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
29 Aug after 31.0 °C 55 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
30 Aug after 33.8 °C 44 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
31 Aug after 36.5 °C 46 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
1 Sept after 39.7 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 55
2 Sept after 39.7 °C 15 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
3 Sept after 36.6 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
4 Sept after 34.8 °C 26 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
5 Sept after 36.1 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
6 Sept after 38.3 °C 18 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Aug 2026
After · 3 Sept 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 30 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak24 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM10108 µg/m³
Optical depth0.90
252627282930
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

All fires in Algeria ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tablat fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 27 August 2026 and 27 August 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 444 hectares (4.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tablat (254 ha, 3.1 %); Guerrouma (191 ha, 2.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.9 km of Guerrouma. 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 43.9 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 70 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 94, 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

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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.