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Wildfires in Bouhadjar بوحجّار

Bouhadjar, Algeria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,374 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 78 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 70 % · 37 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 67 % · 53 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 56 % · 48 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

1,374
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
7
fires
93
km²

How many times has Bouhadjar burned?

Bouhadjar has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chefia fire, 20 July 2026, with 180 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,374 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,262 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
1,374
cumulative ha
1,262
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 Bouhadjar

  1. 180 ha Chefia fire, 20 July 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 763 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 447 ha Ain Zana fire, July 2026 4.8% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 87 ha Bouhadjar fire, August 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 192 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 37 ha Aïn Kerma fire, August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 248 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 21 ha Oued Zitoun fire, July 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 43 ha Chefia fire, 26 July 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 560 ha Bouhadjar fire, July 2017 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 782 ha in total · 6 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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