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Wildfires in Ain Charchar عين شرشار

Ain Charchar, Algeria, has had 13 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,447 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
  1. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 86 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 64 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 48 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 54 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 23° · 58 % · 18 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

6,447
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
13
fires
115
km²

How many times has Ain Charchar burned?

Ain Charchar has burned 13 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Ben Azouz fire, July 2026, with 749 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,447 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,339 hectares, 47 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
13
fires
7
years with fire
6,447
cumulative ha
5,339
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.

Where it has burned most often in Algeria →

Fires that entered Ain Charchar

  1. 749 ha Ben Azouz fire, July 2026 6.5% of the municipality · 4,207 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,420 ha Ain Charchar fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 30% of the municipality · 14,609 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,107 ha Ain Charchar fire, 7 July 2026 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 96 ha Ain Charchar fire, July 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 52 ha Bekkouche Lakhdar fire, September 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 112 ha Ain Charchar fire, September 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 119 ha Ain Charchar fire, August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 191 ha Ain Charchar fire, 31 July 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 205 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 132 ha Ain Charchar fire, 30 July 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 51 ha Bekkouche Lakhdar fire, July 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 156 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 65 ha Bekkouche Lakhdar fire, 2 August 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 137 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 47 ha Bekkouche Lakhdar fire, July 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 129 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 303 ha Ain Charchar fire, July 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 303 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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