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Wildfires in Ammal أمال

Ammal, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 816 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 22° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 21° · 45 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 23° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Moderate 24° · 40 % · 52 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

816
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
3
fires
58
km²

How many times has Ammal burned?

Ammal has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Ammal fire, August 2021, with 146 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
816
cumulative ha
12 Aug 2021
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 Ammal

  1. 146 ha Ammal fire, August 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 146 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 647 ha Ammal fire, August 2020 where it started 11% of the municipality · 756 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 23 ha Ammal fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 112 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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