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DZ · Algeria · Aïn Defla · 8,843 inhabitants

Wildfires in Boucaid بوقايد

Boucaid, Algeria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 356 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% 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. Sun 25 Low 21° · 38 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 22° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 20° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 21° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 22° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 20° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 20° · 34 % · 32 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

356
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
4
fires
65
km²

How many times has Boucaid burned?

Boucaid has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Beni Bouattab fire, October 2020, with 110 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 356 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 316 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
356
cumulative ha
316
distinct ha

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 Boucaid

  1. 110 ha Beni Bouattab fire, October 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 139 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 49 ha Bathia fire, September 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 756 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 142 ha Boucaid fire, July 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 230 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 56 ha Beni Bouattab fire, 11 July 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 514 ha in total · 7 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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