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Wildfires in Ait Smail آيت سماعيل

Ait Smail, Algeria, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,191 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% 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. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 62 % · 46 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 62 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 22° · 47 % · 46 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 22° · 47 % · 50 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 22° · 47 % · 62 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 Ait Smail: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,191
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
12
fires
27
km²

How many times has Ait Smail burned?

Ait Smail has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Darguina fire, 19 August 2026, with 581 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,191 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 856 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
1,191
cumulative ha
856
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 Ait Smail

  1. 581 ha Darguina fire, 19 August 2026 22% of the municipality · 18,731 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 238 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 15 July 2026 8.8% of the municipality · 1,426 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 47 ha Ait Smail fire, July 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 18 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 457 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 10 ha Taskriout fire, October 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 271 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 34 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 17 September 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 105 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 109 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 9 August 2021 4.0% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 0 ha Draa El Kaid fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 274 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 44 ha Taskriout fire, 29 July 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 164 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 118 ha Aokas fire, August 2019 4.4% of the municipality · 1,780 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 5 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 20 July 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 163 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 4 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, July 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 133 ha in total · 2 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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