Wildfires in Cheraia الشرايع
Cheraia, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 1,291 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% 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- Fri 23 Very low 23° · 55 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 19° · 67 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 20° · 68 % · 33 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 22° · 64 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 23° · 46 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 21° · 72 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 21° · 63 % · 34 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 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
- 1,291
- hectares burned
- 19 %
- of its area
- 6
- fires
- 68
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Cheraia
- 79 ha Kanoua fire, 26 July 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 652 ha in total · 1 day
- 252 ha Cheraia fire, July 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 351 ha in total · 1 day
- 547 ha Collo fire, July 2026 8.0% of the municipality · 804 ha in total · 1 day
- 141 ha Cheraia fire, July 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 141 ha in total · 2 days
- 97 ha Cheraia fire, August 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
- 174 ha Cheraia fire, August 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 174 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).