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Tassadane Haddada fire, August 2020 تسدان حدادة · Tassadane Haddada, Boudria Ben Yadjis

Out · last detection 29 Aug 2020, 13:27 UTC

The fire started on 28 August 2020 in Tassadane Haddada, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 355 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 3th largest in Mila since 2016 (of 10 with a page). Number 88 in Algeria in 2020, of 236.

Burnt area
355ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
28 Aug 2020 – 29 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
28 Aug
2020
Heat detections
18
in a single hotspot: 33 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
305MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Aug29 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

29

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
48km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.1 mm on 31 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Tassadane Haddada تسدان حدادة 17,378 inhabitants · 8.3 km from the town where it started
    280 ha reached on 29 Aug
    2.6 %
  2. Boudria Ben Yadjis بودريعة بن ياجيس 10,710 inhabitants · 3.2 km from the town
    76 ha reached on 29 Aug
    1.0 %

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

  • Mixed forest72 %
  • Other natural land27 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.1 %

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 Aug 33.8 °C 28 % 44 km/h 1.0 mm High 30
29 Aug 33.2 °C 21 % 48 km/h 0.2 mm Very high 40
30 Aug after 25.5 °C 43 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm High 27
31 Aug after 23.1 °C 52 % 40 km/h 6.1 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Aug 2020
After · 5 Sept 2020

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 28 August 2020 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1030 µg/m³
2627282930311
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 · 18Every 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 Tassadane Haddada fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 28 August 2020 and 29 August 2020: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 355 hectares (3.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tassadane Haddada (280 ha, 2.6 %); Boudria Ben Yadjis (76 ha, 1.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.2 km of Boudria Ben Yadjis. 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 33.8 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, 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

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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.