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Wildfires in Heliopolis هيليوبوليس

Heliopolis, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 2,572 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 12 High 29° · 32 % · 59 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Moderate 25° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Moderate 24° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Moderate 25° · 27 % · 23 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Moderate 24° · 49 % · 49 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 Heliopolis: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,572
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
6
fires
77
km²

How many times has Heliopolis burned?

Heliopolis has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Eulma fire, August 2026, with 27 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,572 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,294 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
2,572
cumulative ha
2,294
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 Heliopolis

  1. 27 ha Eulma fire, August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 20,949 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,831 ha Heliopolis fire, July 2026 where it started 24% of the municipality · 2,291 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 203 ha Djebala Khemissi fire, July 2026 2.6% of the municipality · 9,006 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 79 ha Heliopolis fire, September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 29 ha Nechmaya fire, August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 173 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 404 ha Nechmaya fire, 7 August 2019 5.2% of the municipality · 544 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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