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Wildfires in El Hamdania الحمدانية

El Hamdania, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 512 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% 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 6 Very low 20° · 44 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Low 20° · 45 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Moderate 22° · 47 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Low 22° · 53 % · 52 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Moderate 22° · 50 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Moderate 20° · 51 % · 59 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Low 18° · 62 % · 50 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 Hamdania: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

512
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
3
fires
143
km²

How many times has El Hamdania burned?

El Hamdania has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Chrea fire, June 2025, with 157 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
512
cumulative ha
21 Jun 2025
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 Hamdania

  1. 157 ha Chrea fire, June 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 433 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 317 ha El Hamdania fire, August 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 438 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 39 ha Tamesguida fire, June 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 140 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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