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DZ · Algeria · Médéa · 4,309 inhabitants

Wildfires in Bouaichoune بوعيشون

Bouaichoune, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,304 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Sun 8 Low 20° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Moderate 23° · 44 % · 46 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Low 22° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Moderate 22° · 50 % · 59 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Moderate 21° · 52 % · 59 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 18° · 60 % · 56 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 18° · 66 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 20° · 44 % · 40 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 Bouaichoune: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,304
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
2
fires
79
km²

How many times has Bouaichoune burned?

Bouaichoune has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: Bouaichoune fire, July 2017, with 215 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,304
cumulative ha
11 Jul 2017
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 Bouaichoune

  1. 215 ha Bouaichoune fire, July 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 215 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,089 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 11 July 2017 14% of the municipality · 2,591 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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