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Wildfires in Boukhelifa بوخليفة

Boukhelifa, Algeria, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 8,325 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% 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. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 48 % · 38 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 72 % · 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

8,325
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
15
fires
116
km²

How many times has Boukhelifa burned?

Boukhelifa has burned 15 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Tichy fire, August 2026, with 884 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,325 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,193 hectares, 53 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
15
fires
6
years with fire
8,325
cumulative ha
6,193
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 Boukhelifa

  1. 884 ha Tichy fire, August 2026 7.6% of the municipality · 3,274 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 250 ha Boukhelifa fire, August 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 249 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,773 ha Boukhelifa fire, July 2026 where it started 24% of the municipality · 2,767 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 326 ha Amizour fire, October 2023 2.8% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 457 ha Tichy fire, October 2023 3.9% of the municipality · 2,444 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 48 ha Tichy fire, 17 September 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 251 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 86 ha Boukhelifa fire, September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 262 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 321 ha Boukhelifa fire, August 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 542 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,600 ha Boukhelifa fire, 10 August 2021 where it started 14% of the municipality · 6,699 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 568 ha Boukhelifa fire, 10 August 2021 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 613 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 115 ha Boukhelifa fire, July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 189 ha Boukhelifa fire, July 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 482 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 283 ha Tichy fire, July 2020 2.4% of the municipality · 943 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 307 ha Tala Hamza fire, August 2017 2.6% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 117 ha Tala Hamza fire, June 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 272 ha in total · 3 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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