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Wildfires in Chekfa الشقفة

Chekfa, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 3,628 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 59% 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. Fri 23 Very low 21° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 67 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 66 % · 27 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

3,628
hectares burned
59 %
of its area
5
fires
62
km²

How many times has Chekfa burned?

Chekfa has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Chekfa fire, August 2026, with 3,089 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,628 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,180 hectares, 51 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
3,628
cumulative ha
3,180
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 Chekfa

  1. 3,089 ha Chekfa fire, August 2026 where it started 50% of the municipality · 48,071 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 1 ha Bordj Tahar fire, October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 313 ha Chekfa fire, August 2021 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 1,892 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 222 ha Chekfa fire, August 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 339 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 4 ha El Kennar Nouchfi fire, July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 486 ha in total · 4 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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