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DZ · Algeria · Tizi Ouzou · 15,771 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ouadhia واضية

Ouadhia, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 1,352 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 16° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 53 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 19° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 56 % · 47 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 20° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 20° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 20° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 21° · 54 % · 45 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

1,352
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
2
fires
33
km²

How many times has Ouadhia burned?

Ouadhia has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Beni Zmenzer fire, August 2021, with 617 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,352
cumulative ha
10 Aug 2021
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 Ouadhia

  1. 617 ha Beni Zmenzer fire, August 2021 19% of the municipality · 3,656 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 735 ha Iboudraren fire, August 2021 22% of the municipality · 26,745 ha in total · 10 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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