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Wildfires in El Affroun العفرون

El Affroun, Algeria, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2017: 315 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Wed 4 Low 23° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 24° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 22° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 25° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 42 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 27° · 43 % · 45 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 43 % · 46 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in El Affroun: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

315
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
1
fires
56
km²

How many times has El Affroun burned?

El Affroun has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2017. The most recent: El Affroun fire, August 2017, with 315 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
315
cumulative ha
8 Aug 2017
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 El Affroun

  1. 315 ha El Affroun fire, August 2017 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 370 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).

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