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Wildfires in Beni Bechir بني بشير

Beni Bechir, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 739 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 48 % · 14 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Moderate 28° · 39 % · 39 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Moderate 28° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Moderate 29° · 38 % · 58 km/h
  6. Fri 13 High 25° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 21° · 66 % · 22 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 Beni Bechir: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

739
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
5
fires
44
km²

How many times has Beni Bechir burned?

Beni Bechir has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Beni Bechir fire, August 2026, with 231 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 739 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 706 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
739
cumulative ha
706
distinct ha

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 Beni Bechir

  1. 231 ha Beni Bechir fire, August 2026 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 230 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 186 ha Ramdane Djamel fire, 22 July 2026 4.2% of the municipality · 700 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 160 ha Beni Bechir fire, July 2023 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 160 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 129 ha Beni Bechir fire, August 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 328 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 33 ha Azzaba fire, September 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 460 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).

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