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Wildfires in Berrihane بريحان

Berrihane, Algeria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 976 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% 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. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 69 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 72 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 45 % · 52 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 24° · 51 % · 23 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

976
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
4
fires
202
km²

How many times has Berrihane burned?

Berrihane has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Berrihane fire, July 2023, with 514 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
976
cumulative ha
24 Jul 2023
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 Berrihane

  1. 514 ha Berrihane fire, July 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 332 ha Berrihane fire, August 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 331 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 21 ha Al Qala fire, 31 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 282 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 109 ha Lac des Oiseaux fire, July 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,038 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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