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Wildfires in Arib

Arib, Algeria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,930 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Fri 23 Low 23° · 45 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 23° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 23° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 27° · 22 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 24° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 24° · 54 % · 24 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

2,930
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
7
fires
220
km²

How many times has Arib burned?

Arib has burned 7 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Arib fire, 27 August 2020, with 828 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
2
years with fire
2,930
cumulative ha
27 Aug 2020
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 Arib

  1. 828 ha Arib fire, 27 August 2020 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 827 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 604 ha Arib fire, 8 August 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 603 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 240 ha Arib fire, 8 August 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 239 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 111 ha Arib fire, 7 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 0 ha Messelmoun fire, 25 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 123 ha Arib fire, July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 123 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,025 ha Arib fire, July 2017 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,022 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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