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Wildfires in Aokas أوقاس

Aokas, Algeria, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,261 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 80% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 26 Very low 20° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 82 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 49 % · 22 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

2,261
hectares burned
80 %
of its area
10
fires
28
km²

How many times has Aokas burned?

Aokas has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Aokas fire, August 2026, with 300 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,261 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,064 hectares, 38 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
2,261
cumulative ha
1,064
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 Aokas

  1. 300 ha Aokas fire, August 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 301 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 0 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 18 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 364 ha Darguina fire, 12 July 2026 13% of the municipality · 1,471 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 71 ha Tizi N'Berber fire, 18 October 2023 2.5% of the municipality · 457 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 124 ha Tichy fire, 16 September 2023 4.4% of the municipality · 838 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 313 ha Aokas fire, September 2023 where it started 11% of the municipality · 338 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 84 ha Aokas fire, 9 August 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 120 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 463 ha Aokas fire, 9 August 2021 where it started 16% of the municipality · 726 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 376 ha Aokas fire, August 2019 where it started 13% of the municipality · 1,780 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 166 ha Aokas fire, July 2017 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 236 ha in total · 4 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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