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DZ · Algeria · Aïn Defla · 6,238 inhabitants

Wildfires in Bathia بطحية

Bathia, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 747 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sat 24 Low 19° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 20° · 40 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 22° · 33 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 25 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 19° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 21° · 41 % · 28 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

747
hectares burned
7.2 %
of its area
3
fires
104
km²

How many times has Bathia burned?

Bathia has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Bathia fire, September 2020, with 676 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
747
cumulative ha
22 Sept 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 Bathia

  1. 676 ha Bathia fire, September 2020 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 756 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 39 ha Beni Bouattab fire, August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 33 ha Boucaid fire, July 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 230 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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