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Wildfires in Kanoua قنواع

Kanoua, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,417 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 64 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 69 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 61 % · 34 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

2,417
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
5
fires
68
km²

How many times has Kanoua burned?

Kanoua has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Kanoua fire, 22 July 2026, with 574 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,417 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,227 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
2,417
cumulative ha
2,227
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 Kanoua

  1. 574 ha Kanoua fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 652 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 163 ha Kanoua fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 162 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 909 ha Kanoua fire, August 2022 where it started 13% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 167 ha Kanoua fire, 28 July 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 167 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 604 ha Kanoua fire, 18 July 2017 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 603 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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