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Wildfires in Chefia الشافية

Chefia, Algeria, has had 25 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 12,136 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 63% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 22° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 24° · 53 % · 43 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 24° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 61 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 81 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 68 % · 35 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

12,136
hectares burned
63 %
of its area
25
fires
192
km²

How many times has Chefia burned?

Chefia has burned 25 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Chefia fire, August 2026, with 411 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,136 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,723 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
25
fires
7
years with fire
12,136
cumulative ha
8,723
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 Chefia

  1. 411 ha Chefia fire, August 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 410 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 197 ha Asfour fire, 27 August 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 754 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,938 ha El Tarf fire, 25 August 2026 15% of the municipality · 6,376 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1 ha Zitouna fire, 20 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 463 ha Chefia fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 763 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 897 ha Chefia fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,316 ha Chefia fire, August 2023 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 142 ha Chefia fire, August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 142 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 891 ha Chefia fire, 10 August 2021 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 360 ha Chefia fire, 10 August 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 694 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 406 ha Chefia fire, July 2021 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 425 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 83 ha Aïn Kerma fire, August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 248 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 422 ha Chefia fire, 30 July 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 421 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 687 ha Chefia fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 710 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 156 ha Chefia fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 162 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 855 ha Chefia fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 963 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 70 ha Chefia fire, 26 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 242 ha Chefia fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 335 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 146 ha Lac des Oiseaux fire, 31 July 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 289 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 154 ha Chefia fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 154 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 710 ha Chefia fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 19 ha Zitouna fire, 29 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 787 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 267 ha Lac des Oiseaux fire, 29 July 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 358 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 102 ha Chefia fire, 12 July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 202 ha Chefia fire, August 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 202 ha in total · 2 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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