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Wildfires in Bougara

Bougara, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 823 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% 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. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Low 23° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Moderate 26° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Low 25° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Moderate 26° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 71 % · 55 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 21° · 49 % · 44 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 Bougara: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

823
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
3
fires
86
km²

How many times has Bougara burned?

Bougara has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Bougara fire, August 2021, with 662 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
823
cumulative ha
6 Aug 2021
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 Bougara

  1. 662 ha Bougara fire, August 2021 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 660 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 157 ha Bougara fire, July 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 4 ha Baata fire, 19 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 125 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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