Wildfires in El Hamma الحامة
El Hamma, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 120 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% 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- Thu 29 Very low 19° · 57 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 19° · 34 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 17° · 33 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 17° · 34 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 14° · 46 % · 48 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 17° · 31 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 17° · 40 % · 41 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 17° · 59 % · 53 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
- 120
- hectares burned
- 0.6 %
- of its area
- 2
- fires
- 186
- km²
How many times has El Hamma burned?
El Hamma has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: El Hamma fire, July 2026, with 108 hectares inside the municipality.
- 2
- fires
- 2
- years with fire
- 120
- cumulative ha
- 13 Jul 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.
Fires that entered El Hamma
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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