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Wildfires in Melbou ملبو

Melbou, Algeria, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 4,417 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 93% 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. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 75 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 70 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 62 % · 32 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

4,417
hectares burned
93 %
of its area
8
fires
47
km²

How many times has Melbou burned?

Melbou has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Melbou fire, August 2026, with 208 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,417 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,806 hectares, 80 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
3
years with fire
4,417
cumulative ha
3,806
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 Melbou

  1. 208 ha Melbou fire, August 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 208 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,344 ha Darguina fire, 19 August 2026 28% of the municipality · 18,731 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 367 ha Melbou fire, October 2023 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 366 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 190 ha Darguina fire, 14 October 2023 4.0% of the municipality · 284 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 258 ha Melbou fire, September 2023 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 258 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,822 ha Melbou fire, July 2023 where it started 38% of the municipality · 3,042 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 123 ha Ziama Mansouriah fire, September 2021 2.6% of the municipality · 176 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 106 ha Melbou fire, August 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 105 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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