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DZ · Algeria · El Tarf · 25,594 inhabitants

Wildfires in El Tarf الطارف

El Tarf, Algeria, has had 21 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 7,380 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 65% 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
  1. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 80 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 72 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 55 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 51 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 65 % · 21 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

7,380
hectares burned
65 %
of its area
21
fires
113
km²

How many times has El Tarf burned?

El Tarf has burned 21 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: El Tarf fire, 27 August 2026, with 148 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,380 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,052 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
21
fires
8
years with fire
7,380
cumulative ha
5,052
distinct ha

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 Tarf

  1. 148 ha El Tarf fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 337 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,284 ha El Tarf fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 6,376 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 472 ha El Tarf fire, August 2023 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 597 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 211 ha El Tarf fire, 15 August 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 212 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,383 ha Bouteldja fire, August 2022 12% of the municipality · 6,415 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 319 ha El Tarf fire, 13 August 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 351 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2 ha Buqus fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 116 ha El Tarf fire, July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 679 ha El Tarf fire, 30 July 2020 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 678 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 334 ha El Tarf fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 334 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 210 ha El Tarf fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 367 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 381 ha El Tarf fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 386 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 240 ha El Tarf fire, August 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 242 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 163 ha El Tarf fire, August 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 352 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 170 ha El Tarf fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 169 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 12 ha Bouteldja fire, 31 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 187 ha El Tarf fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 187 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 108 ha Al Qala fire, 30 July 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 229 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 570 ha Buqus fire, 23 July 2017 5.0% of the municipality · 7,171 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 249 ha El Tarf fire, 21 July 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 273 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 143 ha El Tarf fire, 21 July 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 241 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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