Wildfires in El Ancer العنصر
El Ancer, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 7,848 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 70% 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- Fri 23 Very low 22° · 56 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 19° · 76 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 21° · 56 % · 32 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 22° · 63 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 48 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 62 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 21° · 75 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 64 % · 34 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
- 7,848
- hectares burned
- 70 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 112
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered El Ancer
- 7,416 ha Chekfa fire, August 2026 66% of the municipality · 48,071 ha in total · 20 days
- 40 ha Kheiri Oued Adjoul fire, July 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 2 days
- 117 ha El Ancer fire, 29 July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 2 days
- 167 ha El Ancer fire, 11 July 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 167 ha in total · 2 days
- 109 ha El Ancer fire, 7 July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 108 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).