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Wildfires in Belkheir

Belkheir, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,138 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Tue 10 Moderate 28° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 28° · 35 % · 62 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 16 High 27° · 32 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Moderate 23° · 48 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Belkheir: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,138
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
5
fires
93
km²

How many times has Belkheir burned?

Belkheir has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Djebala Khemissi fire, July 2026, with 509 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
1,138
cumulative ha
14 Jul 2026
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 Belkheir

  1. 509 ha Djebala Khemissi fire, July 2026 5.5% of the municipality · 9,006 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 19 ha Nechmaya fire, 8 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 906 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 86 ha Belkheir fire, July 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 182 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 504 ha Belkheir fire, July 2024 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 683 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 19 ha Bendjarah fire, July 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 595 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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