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DZ · Algeria · Skikda · 9,219 inhabitants

Wildfires in Bouchtata بوشطاطة

Bouchtata, Algeria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,823 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Tue 27 Low 25° · 37 % · 12 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 75 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 70 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 66 % · 25 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

1,823
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
4
fires
114
km²

How many times has Bouchtata burned?

Bouchtata has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Bouchtata fire, July 2026, with 425 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,823 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,755 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
1,823
cumulative ha
1,755
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 Bouchtata

  1. 425 ha Bouchtata fire, July 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 424 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 391 ha El Hadaik fire, August 2021 3.4% of the municipality · 929 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 900 ha Bouchtata fire, August 2019 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 900 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 108 ha Bouchtata fire, July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 4 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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