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Wildfires in Chihani الشيحاني

Chihani, Algeria, has had 20 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 6,805 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% 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. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 74 % · 32 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 63 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 21° · 51 % · 36 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

6,805
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
20
fires
202
km²

How many times has Chihani burned?

Chihani has burned 20 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Chihani fire, August 2025, with 389 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,805 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,090 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
20
fires
6
years with fire
6,805
cumulative ha
6,090
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 Chihani

  1. 389 ha Chihani fire, August 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 738 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 77 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 280 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,130 ha Chihani fire, 17 August 2022 where it started 11% of the municipality · 2,365 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 421 ha Chihani fire, 17 August 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 443 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 102 ha Chihani fire, 17 August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,716 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 15 August 2022 8.5% of the municipality · 2,887 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 101 ha Chihani fire, 12 August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 376 ha Beni Salah fire, August 2021 1.9% of the municipality · 5,857 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 71 ha Ain Ben Beida fire, August 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 681 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 127 ha Chihani fire, 10 August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 166 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 29 August 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 505 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 229 ha Asfour fire, July 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 461 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 272 ha Chihani fire, August 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 271 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 27 ha Boucheghouf fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 4,488 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 252 ha Chihani fire, July 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 251 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 25 ha Asfour fire, 31 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 164 ha Asfour fire, 30 July 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 460 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 29 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 30 July 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 101 ha Chihani fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 32 ha Asfour fire, July 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 155 ha in total · 1 day

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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