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DZ · Algeria · Constantine · 9,397 inhabitants

Wildfires in Beni Hamidene بني حميدان

Beni Hamidene, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2026: 318 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 26° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Moderate 27° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 12 High 26° · 38 % · 53 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 23° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Moderate 22° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Moderate 22° · 51 % · 27 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 Hamidene: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

318
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
2
fires
135
km²

How many times has Beni Hamidene burned?

Beni Hamidene has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Beni Hamidene fire, July 2026, with 137 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
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  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
318
cumulative ha
15 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 Beni Hamidene

  1. 137 ha Beni Hamidene fire, July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 136 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 181 ha Zighoud Youcef fire, July 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 1,489 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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