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DZ · Algeria · Setif · 7,005 inhabitants

Wildfires in Maaouia معاوية

Maaouia, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,647 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Mon 2 Low 13° · 53 % · 48 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 17° · 38 % · 43 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 62 % · 50 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 18° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 19° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Moderate 20° · 51 % · 49 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

1,647
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
3
fires
85
km²

How many times has Maaouia burned?

Maaouia has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: El Ayadi Barbes fire, 21 July 2026, with 461 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,647 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,406 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  4. 1× 19
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  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,647
cumulative ha
1,406
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 Maaouia

  1. 461 ha El Ayadi Barbes fire, 21 July 2026 5.4% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 428 ha Maaouia fire, August 2020 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 427 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 758 ha Maaouia fire, July 2019 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 864 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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