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Wildfires in Oudjana وجانة

Oudjana, Algeria: 5 fires since 2017 burned 6,497 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 59 % · 43 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 48 % · 47 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 51 % · 26 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

6,497
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
5
fires
61
km²

How many times has Oudjana burned?

Oudjana has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Texenna fire, August 2026, with 3,589 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,497 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,995 hectares, 66 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
6,497
cumulative ha
3,995
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 Oudjana

  1. 3,589 ha Texenna fire, August 2026 59% of the municipality · 15,144 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 0 ha Chekfa fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 48,071 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 1,477 ha Oudjana fire, October 2023 where it started 24% of the municipality · 1,535 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 407 ha Oudjana fire, August 2020 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 510 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,025 ha Oudjana fire, July 2017 where it started 17% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 7 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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