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DZ · Algeria · Médéa · 4,897 inhabitants

Wildfires in Birbouche بربوش

Birbouche, Algeria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 399 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 27 Low 23° · 25 % · 33 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 18° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 19° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 59 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 15° · 52 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

399
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
4
fires
74
km²

How many times has Birbouche burned?

Birbouche has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Ouled Hellal fire, 6 August 2020, with 355 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
399
cumulative ha
6 Aug 2020
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 Birbouche

  1. 355 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 6 August 2020 4.8% of the municipality · 5,482 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 35 ha Wadi Ash Shurfaa fire, July 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 269 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 4 ha Ouled Hellal fire, August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 5 ha Oued Djemaa fire, 21 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,446 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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