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Wildfires in Messelmoun

Messelmoun, Algeria, has had 19 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 5,832 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% 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. Tue 3 Low 21° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 73 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 24° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 26° · 39 % · 47 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 25° · 39 % · 57 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

5,832
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
19
fires
199
km²

How many times has Messelmoun burned?

Messelmoun has burned 19 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Messelmoun fire, November 2025, with 808 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,832 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,614 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
19
fires
9
years with fire
5,832
cumulative ha
5,614
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 Messelmoun

  1. 808 ha Messelmoun fire, November 2025 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 2,102 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 205 ha Messelmoun fire, August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 204 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 159 ha Messelmoun fire, October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 678 ha Messelmoun fire, August 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 158 ha Messelmoun fire, October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 841 ha Messelmoun fire, September 2020 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 844 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1 ha Arib fire, 27 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 827 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 439 ha Messelmoun fire, 10 August 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 439 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,032 ha Messelmoun fire, 25 July 2020 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 309 ha Messelmoun fire, 7 July 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 309 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 260 ha Messelmoun fire, 2 July 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 260 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 216 ha Messelmoun fire, June 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 216 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 80 ha Messelmoun fire, 27 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2 ha Gouraya fire, July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 657 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 149 ha Messelmoun fire, 14 July 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 148 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 139 ha Messelmoun fire, August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 157 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 180 ha Messelmoun fire, 18 July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 180 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 116 ha Messelmoun fire, 13 July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 60 ha Sidi Semiane fire, July 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 211 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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