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Texenna fire, October 2023 تاكسنة · Texenna

Out · last detection 19 Oct 2023, 13:40 UTC

The fire started on 19 October 2023 in Texenna, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 144 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 70th largest in Jijel since 2016 (of 110 with a page). Number 63 in Algeria in 2023, of 86.

Burnt area
144ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
19 Oct 2023 – 20 Oct 2023
Municipalities hit
1
communes
Started on
19 Oct
2023
Heat detections
3
in a single hotspot: 57 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
104MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Oct20 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

19

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

The weather it burned in

28°high
52km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.7 mm on 24 Oct.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Texenna تاكسنة 15,682 inhabitants · 1.9 km from the town where it started
    144 ha reached on 19 Oct
    0.9 %

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 forest79 %
  • Other natural land14 %
  • Agricultural areas4.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.4 %

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)
19 Oct 26.7 °C 26 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
20 Oct 28.0 °C 19 % 52 km/h 1.4 mm High 33
21 Oct after 20.2 °C 46 % 42 km/h 0.2 mm High 25
22 Oct after 25.6 °C 32 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Oct after 27.7 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
24 Oct after 23.5 °C 33 % 33 km/h 7.7 mm Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Oct 2023
After · 27 Oct 2023

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 19 October 2023 the air beside the fire reached 48 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 28: 1.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak48 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM10177 µg/m³
Optical depth0.59
17181920212223
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 · 3Every 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 19 October 2023 and 20 October 2023: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 144 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Texenna (144 ha, 0.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 1.9 km of Texenna. 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 28.0 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class 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.