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Wildfires in Beni Semiel بني صميل

Beni Semiel, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 4,212 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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 22° · 43 % · 47 km/h
  2. Wed 11 High 23° · 42 % · 81 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 19° · 47 % · 81 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 19° · 45 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Moderate 22° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Low 20° · 33 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Moderate 19° · 29 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Moderate 21° · 46 % · 39 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 Semiel: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,212
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
2
fires
227
km²

How many times has Beni Semiel burned?

Beni Semiel has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Beni Semiel fire, July 2026, with 2,693 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,212
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 Semiel

  1. 2,693 ha Beni Semiel fire, July 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 5,270 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,520 ha Beni Semiel fire, July 2017 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 2,227 ha in total · 5 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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