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Wildfires in Bouteldja بوثلجة

Bouteldja, Algeria, has had 11 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,830 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 20° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 60 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 53 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 74 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 72 % · 34 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

2,830
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
11
fires
115
km²

How many times has Bouteldja burned?

Bouteldja has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: El Tarf fire, 25 August 2026, with 785 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,830 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,515 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
2,830
cumulative ha
2,515
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 Bouteldja

  1. 785 ha El Tarf fire, 25 August 2026 6.8% of the municipality · 6,376 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 22 ha El Tarf fire, 13 August 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 351 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,475 ha Bouteldja fire, August 2022 where it started 13% of the municipality · 6,415 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 18 ha Chefia fire, 10 August 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 24 ha Chefia fire, 29 July 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 710 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 6 ha El Tarf fire, 28 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 386 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 185 ha Bouteldja fire, August 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 185 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 35 ha Bouteldja fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 141 ha Bouteldja fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 116 ha Bouteldja fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 23 ha Al Qala fire, 30 July 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 229 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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