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DZ · Algeria · Khenchela · 4,953 inhabitants

Wildfires in Chelia شلية

Chelia, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 3,233 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 Low 19° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 20° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 40 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 18° · 38 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 16° · 57 % · 37 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

3,233
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
2
fires
152
km²

How many times has Chelia burned?

Chelia has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Chelia fire, August 2021, with 147 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
3,233
cumulative ha
17 Aug 2021
most recent

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 Chelia

  1. 147 ha Chelia fire, August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 3,086 ha Tamza fire, 4 July 2021 20% of the municipality · 9,168 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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