Wildfires in Ain Ben Beida عين بن بيضاء
Ain Ben Beida, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,857 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 20° · 40 % · 19 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 24° · 46 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 22° · 54 % · 18 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 22° · 56 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 21° · 60 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 22° · 47 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 26° · 43 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 10 Low 26° · 39 % · 27 km/h
Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.
The municipality and its fires
Since 2016
- 1,857
- hectares burned
- 14 %
- of its area
- 6
- fires
- 134
- km²
How many times has Ain Ben Beida burned?
Ain Ben Beida has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2026, with 218 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,857 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,685 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.
- 6
- fires
- 5
- years with fire
- 1,857
- cumulative ha
- 1,685
- distinct ha
Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.
Fires that entered Ain Ben Beida
- 218 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 217 ha in total · 9 days
- 595 ha Djebala Khemissi fire, July 2026 4.4% of the municipality · 9,006 ha in total · 5 days
- 101 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 280 ha in total · 1 day
- 612 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2021 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 681 ha in total · 1 day
- 104 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
- 228 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, July 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 1 day
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
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