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DZ · Algeria · Médéa · 5,972 inhabitants

Wildfires in Boghar بوغار

Boghar, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,736 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Thu 29 Low 22° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 19° · 49 % · 38 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 18° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 18° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 19° · 34 % · 26 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 67 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,736
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
5
fires
125
km²

How many times has Boghar burned?

Boghar has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Ouled Antar fire, 23 August 2020, with 629 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
1,736
cumulative ha
23 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 Boghar

  1. 629 ha Ouled Antar fire, 23 August 2020 5.0% of the municipality · 924 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 316 ha Ouled Antar fire, 9 August 2020 2.5% of the municipality · 687 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 192 ha Boghar fire, July 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 191 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 484 ha Boghar fire, July 2017 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 491 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 116 ha Boghar fire, August 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 116 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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