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Wildfires in Bendjarah بن جراح

Bendjarah, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 587 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 46 % · 43 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 21° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 24° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 26° · 40 % · 43 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 26° · 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

587
hectares burned
7.6 %
of its area
2
fires
78
km²

How many times has Bendjarah burned?

Bendjarah has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Belkheir fire, July 2025, with 10 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
587
cumulative ha
24 Jul 2025
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 Bendjarah

  1. 10 ha Belkheir fire, July 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 182 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 577 ha Bendjarah fire, July 2020 where it started 7.4% 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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