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Wildfires in Bouhamdane بوحمدان

Bouhamdane, Algeria, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,870 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 70 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 72 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 70 % · 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

1,870
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
10
fires
162
km²

How many times has Bouhamdane burned?

Bouhamdane has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Bouhamdane fire, August 2026, with 327 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,870 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,726 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
10
fires
4
years with fire
1,870
cumulative ha
1,726
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 Bouhamdane

  1. 327 ha Bouhamdane fire, August 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 327 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 121 ha Bordj Sabat fire, July 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 34 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 894 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 246 ha Bouhamdane fire, October 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 245 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 281 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 20 August 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 391 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 202 ha Bouhamdane fire, August 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 202 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 130 ha Bouhamdane fire, August 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 161 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 239 ha Bouhamdane fire, July 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 408 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 241 ha Bouhamdane fire, August 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 240 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 49 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 29 July 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 235 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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