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DZ · Algeria · Médéa · 11,633 inhabitants

Wildfires in Bouchrahil بوشراحيل

Bouchrahil, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,810 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 24° · 31 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 26° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 19° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 21° · 37 % · 29 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

1,810
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
3
fires
149
km²

How many times has Bouchrahil burned?

Bouchrahil has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Bouchrahil fire, July 2019, with 1,346 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,810
cumulative ha
24 Jul 2019
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 Bouchrahil

  1. 1,346 ha Bouchrahil fire, July 2019 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 215 ha Baata fire, 11 July 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 250 ha Bouchrahil fire, July 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 249 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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