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Wildfires in Lardjem الأرجام

Lardjem, Algeria, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,778 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% 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. Tue 3 Moderate 21° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 74 % · 33 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 23° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 23° · 41 % · 50 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 23° · 44 % · 51 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

1,778
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
8
fires
276
km²

How many times has Lardjem burned?

Lardjem has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Ouled Ben Abdelkader fire, August 2020, with 34 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
1,778
cumulative ha
31 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 Lardjem

  1. 34 ha Ouled Ben Abdelkader fire, August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 207 ha Lardjem fire, July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 216 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 117 ha Lardjem fire, June 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 362 ha Lardjem fire, August 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 361 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 460 ha Lardjem fire, June 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 459 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 186 ha Lardjem fire, 23 July 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 186 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 112 ha Lardjem fire, 13 July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 299 ha Lardjem fire, August 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 355 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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