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Wildfires in Khelil خلـيل

Khelil, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,231 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 30 Low 19° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 17° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 17° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 14° · 59 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 17° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 16° · 54 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 17° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 51 % · 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

1,231
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
2
fires
228
km²

How many times has Khelil burned?

Khelil has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Khelil fire, August 2020, with 856 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,231
cumulative ha
6 Aug 2020
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 Khelil

  1. 856 ha Khelil fire, August 2020 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 854 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 375 ha Hammam Guergour fire, June 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 783 ha in total · 3 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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