Taskriout fire, October 2022 Taskriout, Souk El Tenine
The fire started on 28 October 2022 in Taskriout, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 104 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 106th largest in Jijel since 2016 (of 110 with a page). Number 57 in Algeria in 2022, of 58.
We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.
- Burnt area
- 104ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 28 Oct 2022 – 28 Oct 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- communes
- Started on
- 28 Oct
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 20
- Moderate · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.5 mm on 4 Nov.
This area had burned before
49% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 28 ha in 2019, 23 ha in 2020, 3 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 51 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Taskriout where it started103 ha reached on 23 Oct3.3 %
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1 ha reached on 27 Oct0.0 %
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 land92 %
- Mixed forest7.5 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct | 24.0 °C | 34 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 29 Oct after | 23.3 °C | 34 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 30 Oct after | 22.6 °C | 39 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 31 Oct after | 22.7 °C | 39 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 1 Nov after | 22.0 °C | 37 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 2 Nov after | 23.3 °C | 28 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 3 Nov after | 24.2 °C | 27 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 4 Nov after | 19.6 °C | 41 % | 46 km/h | 10.5 mm | Very low 2 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 29 October 2022 the air beside the fire reached 19 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Taskriout fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 28 October 2022 and 28 October 2022: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 104 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Taskriout (103 ha, 3.3 %); Souk El Tenine (1 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 5.5 km of Souk El Tenine. 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 24.0 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 19 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.
- 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.