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Wildfires in Baata بعطة

Baata, Algeria, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,534 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 Moderate 22° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 20° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 24° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 26° · 25 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 43 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 31 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

2,534
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
8
fires
123
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Baata

  1. 158 ha Baata fire, July 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 36 ha El Aïssaouia fire, 2 August 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 238 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 188 ha Baata fire, 20 July 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 187 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 232 ha Baata fire, 8 July 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 232 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 54 ha Bouchrahil fire, July 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 32 ha Bougara fire, July 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 73 ha Baata fire, 19 July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,760 ha Baata fire, 11 July 2017 where it started 14% of the municipality · 2,035 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).