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Wildfires in Bouzguen بوزقن

Bouzguen, Algeria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 3,709 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 54% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Wed 11 Moderate 23° · 42 % · 49 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 79 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 21° · 44 % · 43 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 21° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 22° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Moderate 21° · 39 % · 42 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 22° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Moderate 23° · 49 % · 49 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 Bouzguen: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,709
hectares burned
54 %
of its area
7
fires
69
km²

How many times has Bouzguen burned?

Bouzguen has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Idjer fire, August 2026, with 623 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,709 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,097 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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7
fires
5
years with fire
3,709
cumulative ha
3,097
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 Bouzguen

  1. 623 ha Idjer fire, August 2026 9.1% of the municipality · 1,424 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 93 ha Bouzguen fire, August 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 365 ha Ifigha fire, July 2024 5.3% of the municipality · 926 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 122 ha Idjer fire, 9 August 2021 1.8% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 0 ha Azazga fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,611 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,189 ha Iloula Oumalou fire, August 2021 32% of the municipality · 6,262 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 319 ha Bouzguen fire, July 2020 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 419 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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