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Wildfires in Al Qala القالة

Al Qala, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,781 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sat 14 Very low 23° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 23° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 21° · 71 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 22° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Low 23° · 53 % · 61 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 24° · 64 % · 57 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Low 22° · 71 % · 57 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 20° · 58 % · 51 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 Al Qala: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,781
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
6
fires
288
km²

How many times has Al Qala burned?

Al Qala has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Berrihane fire, July 2023, with 1,021 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
6,781
cumulative ha
24 Jul 2023
most recent

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 Al Qala

  1. 1,021 ha Berrihane fire, July 2023 3.6% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,799 ha Al Qala fire, August 2022 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 1,795 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,443 ha Bouteldja fire, August 2022 12% of the municipality · 6,415 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 158 ha El Tarf fire, 29 July 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 367 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 262 ha Al Qala fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 282 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 99 ha Al Qala fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 229 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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