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DZ · Algeria · Aïn Defla · 31,073 inhabitants

Wildfires in El Amra العامرة

El Amra, Algeria, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 4,358 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 13 Moderate 23° · 48 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 43 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 23° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 22° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 24° · 47 % · 50 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Moderate 24° · 56 % · 52 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Low 22° · 46 % · 24 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 Amra: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,358
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
8
fires
182
km²

How many times has El Amra burned?

El Amra has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Messelmoun fire, August 2023, with 0 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
6
years with fire
4,358
cumulative ha
13 Aug 2023
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 Amra

  1. 0 ha Messelmoun fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 204 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 3,372 ha El Amra fire, August 2021 where it started 19% of the municipality · 3,363 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 39 ha Mekhatria fire, September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 120 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 103 ha El Amra fire, July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 294 ha El Amra fire, July 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 293 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 59 ha El Amra fire, June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 19 ha Messelmoun fire, August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 157 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 472 ha El Amra fire, July 2016 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 641 ha in total · 3 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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