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Wildfires in Ghebala غبالة

Ghebala, Algeria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 522 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Tue 10 Low 26° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 27° · 42 % · 47 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 26° · 39 % · 76 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 43 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Moderate 22° · 51 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Moderate 23° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Moderate 23° · 55 % · 43 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Low 22° · 55 % · 26 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 Ghebala: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

522
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
4
fires
125
km²

How many times has Ghebala burned?

Ghebala has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Hamala fire, August 2026, with 289 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
522
cumulative ha
24 Aug 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.

Where it has burned most often in Algeria

Fires that entered Ghebala

  1. 289 ha Hamala fire, August 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 0 ha Oum Toub fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 709 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 210 ha Ghebala fire, July 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 481 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 23 ha Settara fire, July 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 695 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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