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Wildfires in Boucheghouf

Boucheghouf, Algeria, has had 11 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 9,758 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 6 Very low 22° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 22° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Low 26° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Low 26° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Low 28° · 38 % · 19 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Moderate 27° · 31 % · 57 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Moderate 25° · 38 % · 26 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 Boucheghouf: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,758
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
11
fires
199
km²

How many times has Boucheghouf burned?

Boucheghouf has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Boucheghouf fire, July 2026, with 428 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,758 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,265 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
9,758
cumulative ha
6,265
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 Boucheghouf

  1. 428 ha Boucheghouf fire, July 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 427 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 32 ha Hammam Nbail fire, July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 532 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 497 ha Medjez Sfa fire, August 2022 2.5% of the municipality · 3,193 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 239 ha Chihani fire, 17 August 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 2,365 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 3,619 ha Beni Salah fire, August 2021 where it started 18% of the municipality · 5,857 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 16 ha Boucheghouf fire, August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 458 ha Boucheghouf fire, August 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 591 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 148 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 9 August 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 352 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 179 ha Boucheghouf fire, September 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 193 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 3,736 ha Boucheghouf fire, August 2017 where it started 19% of the municipality · 4,488 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 405 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 30 July 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 1,189 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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