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Wildfires in Constantine الخروب

Constantine, Algeria, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,383 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Moderate 22° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 18° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 21° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 22° · 33 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 47 % · 29 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

2,383
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
8
fires
183
km²

How many times has Constantine burned?

Constantine has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Constantine fire, August 2026, with 163 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
2,383
cumulative ha
23 Aug 2026
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 Constantine

  1. 163 ha Constantine fire, August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 162 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 14 ha El Khroub fire, July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 181 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 301 ha El Khroub fire, August 2022 1.6% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 179 ha El Khroub fire, July 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 45 ha Didouche Mourad fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,586 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 641 ha Aïn Smara fire, August 2019 3.5% of the municipality · 2,491 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,027 ha Didouche Mourad fire, July 2019 5.6% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 14 ha Ibn Badis fire, 30 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,334 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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