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Wildfires in Merad مَراد

Merad, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 295 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Low 22° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 23° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 25° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 21° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 22° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 22° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 20° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 20° · 61 % · 25 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

295
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
3
fires
131
km²

How many times has Merad burned?

Merad has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Merad fire, August 2020, with 141 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
295
cumulative ha
8 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 Merad

  1. 141 ha Merad fire, August 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 259 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 154 ha Merad fire, July 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 293 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 0 ha Ben Allel fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 693 ha in total · 5 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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