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DZ · Algeria · Souk Ahras · 21,802 inhabitants

Wildfires in Mechroha المشروحة

Mechroha, Algeria, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,562 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% 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. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 56 % · 44 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 65 % · 51 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 46 % · 20 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

1,562
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
12
fires
223
km²

How many times has Mechroha burned?

Mechroha has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Mechroha fire, July 2026, with 294 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,562 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,484 hectares, 6.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
1,562
cumulative ha
1,484
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 Mechroha

  1. 294 ha Mechroha fire, July 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 291 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 0 ha Medjez Sfa fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 220 ha Mechroha fire, September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 219 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 0 ha Beni Salah fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,857 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 134 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 27 August 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 478 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 70 ha Medjez Sfa fire, 21 August 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 208 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 192 ha Mechroha fire, July 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 274 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 56 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 29 July 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 633 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 340 ha Mechroha fire, 28 July 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 456 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 3 ha Hammam Beni Salah fire, 22 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 93 ha Mechroha fire, 20 July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 160 ha Mechroha fire, August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 160 ha in total · 1 day

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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