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Wildfires in Aïn Kerma عين الكرمة

Aïn Kerma, Algeria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,261 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 26° · 41 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Low 26° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 26° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 46 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Moderate 23° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Moderate 22° · 44 % · 26 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Aïn Kerma: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,261
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
7
fires
112
km²

How many times has Aïn Kerma burned?

Aïn Kerma has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Aïn Kerma fire, August 2026, with 346 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,261 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,148 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
1,261
cumulative ha
1,148
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 Aïn Kerma

  1. 346 ha Aïn Kerma fire, August 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 346 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 122 ha Chefia fire, 20 July 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 763 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1 ha Zitouna fire, 20 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 106 ha Bouhadjar fire, August 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 192 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 334 ha Chefia fire, 10 August 2021 3.0% of the municipality · 694 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 128 ha Aïn Kerma fire, August 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 248 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 224 ha Bouhadjar fire, July 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 782 ha in total · 6 days

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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