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Wildfires in Maala

Maala, Algeria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 4,221 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 76% 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. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 38 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 22° · 38 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 24° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 21° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 21° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 22° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 20° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 19° · 59 % · 35 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

4,221
hectares burned
76 %
of its area
4
fires
55
km²

How many times has Maala burned?

Maala has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Kadiria fire, July 2026, with 544 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,221 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,083 hectares, 74 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
4,221
cumulative ha
4,083
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 Maala

  1. 544 ha Kadiria fire, July 2026 9.8% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,311 ha Zbarbar fire, 20 July 2023 24% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,321 ha Maala fire, June 2023 where it started 42% of the municipality · 4,202 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 46 ha Zbarbar fire, August 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 844 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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