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DZ · Algeria · Khenchela · 28,724 inhabitants

Wildfires in Kais قايس

Kais, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 30 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 Low 19° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 20° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 24 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 43 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 17° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 16° · 59 % · 43 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

30
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
2
fires
58
km²

How many times has Kais burned?

Kais has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Tamza fire, 4 July 2021, with 8 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
30
cumulative ha
4 Jul 2021
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 Kais

  1. 8 ha Tamza fire, 4 July 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 920 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 22 ha Tamza fire, 4 July 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 9,168 ha in total · 7 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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