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Toudja fire, August 2026 توجة · Toudja, El Kseur

Out · last detection 28 Aug 2026, 01:15 UTC

The fire started on 26 August 2026 in Toudja, Algeria, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 3,264 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 7th largest in Bejaia since 2016 (of 101 with a page). Number 23 in Algeria in 2026, of 197.

Burnt area
3,264ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
26 Aug 2026 – 28 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
26 Aug
2026
Heat detections
32
in a single hotspot: 41 MW
Danger at start
96
Very extreme · FWI index
Energy released
250MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Aug 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Aug28 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

2728

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

The weather it burned in

41°high
69km/h · peak gust
11%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 28 Aug.

This area had burned before

87% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 480 ha in 2017, 121 ha in 2020, 2,697 ha in 2021, 221 ha in 2023, 7 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,847 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Toudja توجة 9,827 inhabitants · 2.0 km from the town where it started
    2,314 ha reached on 27 Aug
    14 %
  2. El Kseur القصر 29,842 inhabitants · 5.1 km from the town
    956 ha reached on 27 Aug
    9.9 %

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 forest75 %
  • Other natural land24 %

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)
26 Aug 41.2 °C 11 % 69 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 96
27 Aug 40.8 °C 11 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
28 Aug 28.8 °C 43 % 28 km/h 1.2 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 19 Aug 2026
After · 4 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 247 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 135: 9.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak247 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM10470 µg/m³
Optical depth1.88
2425262728293031
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 · 32Every 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 Toudja fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 26 August 2026 to 28 August 2026 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 August 2026 to 26 August 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,264 hectares (32.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Toudja (2,314 ha, 14 %); El Kseur (956 ha, 9.9 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 2.0 km of Toudja. 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 41.2 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 69 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 96, 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.