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Texenna fire, July 2020 تاكسنة · Boudria Ben Yadjis, Texenna

Out · last detection 29 Jul 2020, 13:08 UTC

The fire started on 29 July 2020 in Texenna, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 155 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 66th largest in Jijel since 2016 (of 110 with a page). Number 168 in Algeria in 2020, of 236.

Burnt area
155ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
29 Jul 2020 – 29 Jul 2020
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
29 Jul
2020
Heat detections
4
in a single hotspot: 85 MW
Danger at start
41
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
180MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jul29 Jul

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

38°high
32km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 3 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. Boudria Ben Yadjis بودريعة بن ياجيس 10,710 inhabitants · 6.2 km from the town
    99 ha
    1.2 %
  2. Texenna تاكسنة 15,682 inhabitants · 6.3 km from the town where it started
    56 ha reached on 29 Jul
    0.3 %

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 forest51 %
  • Other natural land49 %

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 38.4 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
30 Jul after 38.1 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
31 Jul after 38.7 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
1 Aug after 36.0 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
2 Aug after 37.8 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Aug after 36.5 °C 32 % 38 km/h 2.0 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jul 2020
After · 5 Aug 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.

Detections table · 4Every 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 Texenna fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 29 July 2020 and 29 July 2020: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 155 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Boudria Ben Yadjis (99 ha, 1.2 %); Texenna (56 ha, 0.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 6.2 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 38.4 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.