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DZ · Algeria · Tizi Ouzou · 13,149 inhabitants

Wildfires in Irdjen إرجن

Irdjen, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 1,328 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 63% 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. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 40 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 24° · 39 % · 17 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 26° · 36 % · 14 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 23° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 23° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 22° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 22° · 49 % · 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

1,328
hectares burned
63 %
of its area
2
fires
21
km²

How many times has Irdjen burned?

Irdjen has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Irdjen fire, August 2024, with 741 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,328 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 587 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,328
cumulative ha
587
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 Irdjen

  1. 741 ha Irdjen fire, August 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 741 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 587 ha Iboudraren fire, August 2021 28% of the municipality · 26,745 ha in total · 10 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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