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Wildfires in Buqus بوقوس

Buqus, Algeria, has had 18 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 9,490 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 58 % · 47 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 59 % · 53 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 84 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 84 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 69 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 75 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 71 % · 36 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

9,490
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
18
fires
215
km²

How many times has Buqus burned?

Buqus has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: El Tarf fire, 27 August 2026, with 176 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,490 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,432 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
9,490
cumulative ha
7,432
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 Buqus

  1. 176 ha El Tarf fire, 27 August 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 337 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 111 ha Buqus fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2 ha El Tarf fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 597 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,005 ha Buqus fire, August 2022 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 8 ha Zitouna fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 131 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2 ha El Tarf fire, 15 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 212 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,665 ha Buqus fire, August 2021 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 249 ha Buqus fire, 29 August 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 249 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 118 ha Buqus fire, 21 August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 103 ha Buqus fire, 12 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 108 ha Buqus fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 107 ha Buqus fire, 26 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2 ha El Tarf fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 242 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 255 ha Buqus fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 254 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 4 ha Aïn El Assel fire, 30 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,498 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 153 ha Buqus fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 119 ha Buqus fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 5,304 ha Buqus fire, 23 July 2017 where it started 25% of the municipality · 7,171 ha in total · 13 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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