Wildfires in Cherchell
Cherchell, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,214 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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 22° · 54 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 20° · 60 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 22° · 50 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 22° · 47 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 24° · 37 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 21° · 66 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 21° · 63 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 59 % · 30 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
- 1,214
- hectares burned
- 9.8 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 124
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Cherchell
- 205 ha Cherchell fire, December 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 205 ha in total · 1 day
- 150 ha Cherchell fire, July 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 3 days
- 208 ha Cherchell fire, October 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 208 ha in total · 2 days
- 479 ha Cherchell fire, August 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 478 ha in total · 2 days
- 171 ha Cherchell fire, July 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 171 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).