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Wildfires in Asfour عصفور

Asfour, Algeria, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,180 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 26° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 55 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 24° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 71 % · 35 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

3,180
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
14
fires
105
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Asfour

  1. 175 ha Asfour fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 175 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 557 ha Asfour fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 754 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 351 ha Chihani fire, August 2025 3.3% of the municipality · 738 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 788 ha Chefia fire, August 2023 7.5% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 11 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 15 August 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,887 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 4 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 29 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 505 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 11 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 31 July 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 131 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 233 ha Asfour fire, July 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 461 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 94 ha Chefia fire, August 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 335 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 297 ha Asfour fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 460 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 85 ha Asfour fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 384 ha Chefia fire, 30 July 2017 3.6% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 67 ha Chihani fire, July 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 123 ha Asfour fire, July 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 155 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).