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Wildfires in Chahna بلدية الشحنة

Chahna, Algeria, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,935 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 81% 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. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 82 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 80 % · 36 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 54 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 60 % · 32 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

6,935
hectares burned
81 %
of its area
7
fires
86
km²

How many times has Chahna burned?

Chahna has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Texenna fire, August 2026, with 386 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,935 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,374 hectares, 74 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
6,935
cumulative ha
6,374
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 Chahna

  1. 386 ha Texenna fire, August 2026 4.5% of the municipality · 15,144 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 395 ha Chahna fire, August 2026 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 395 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 5,497 ha Chekfa fire, August 2026 64% of the municipality · 48,071 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 254 ha Chahna fire, July 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 254 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 104 ha Oudjana fire, August 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 510 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 278 ha Chahna fire, July 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 282 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 20 ha Oudjana fire, July 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 7 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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