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Wildfires in Kherrata خراطة،بجاية

Kherrata, Algeria, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 586 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 15° · 75 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 73 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 50 % · 47 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

586
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
9
fires
97
km²

How many times has Kherrata burned?

Kherrata has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Darguina fire, 19 August 2026, with 30 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 586 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 538 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
9
fires
4
years with fire
586
cumulative ha
538
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 Kherrata

  1. 30 ha Darguina fire, 19 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 18,731 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 44 ha Darguina fire, 1 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 626 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 37 ha Draa El Kaid fire, July 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 221 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 109 ha Kherrata fire, July 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 144 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 10 ha Darguina fire, 14 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 17 ha Darguina fire, 28 August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 240 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 74 ha Draa El Kaid fire, August 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 274 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 236 ha Kherrata fire, 30 July 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 236 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 28 ha Kherrata fire, 20 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 128 ha in total · 2 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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