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DZ · Algeria · Souk Ahras · 15,790 inhabitants

Wildfires in Hanancha الحنانشة

Hanancha, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,246 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Mon 26 Low 19° · 52 % · 49 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 22° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 75 % · 35 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 15° · 63 % · 32 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

1,246
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
6
fires
206
km²

How many times has Hanancha burned?

Hanancha has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hanancha fire, August 2026, with 195 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
1,246
cumulative ha
6 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 Hanancha

  1. 195 ha Hanancha fire, August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 195 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 114 ha Hanancha fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 133 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 227 ha Hanancha fire, July 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 231 ha Hanancha fire, August 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 232 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 469 ha Zaarouria fire, August 2022 2.3% of the municipality · 6,254 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 10 ha Tiffech fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 122 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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