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DZ · Algeria · Tizi Ouzou · 9,160 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ifigha إيفيغاء

Ifigha, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 2,566 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 28 Low 20° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 19° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 80 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 66 % · 25 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

2,566
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
6
fires
47
km²

How many times has Ifigha burned?

Ifigha has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Ifigha fire, July 2024, with 563 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,566 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,365 hectares, 51 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
2,566
cumulative ha
2,365
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 Ifigha

  1. 563 ha Ifigha fire, July 2024 where it started 12% of the municipality · 926 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 174 ha Ifigha fire, August 2023 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 173 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 326 ha Idjer fire, 9 August 2021 7.0% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,430 ha Azazga fire, August 2021 31% of the municipality · 3,611 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 19 ha Iloula Oumalou fire, August 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 6,262 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 55 ha Ifigha fire, July 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day

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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