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DZ · Algeria · Souk Ahras · 14,043 inhabitants

Wildfires in Oued Cheham وادي الشحم

Oued Cheham, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 105 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% 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. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 85 % · 37 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 15° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 85 % · 52 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 57 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 42 % · 38 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 51 % · 34 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

105
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
2
fires
96
km²

How many times has Oued Cheham burned?

Oued Cheham has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Oued Cheham fire, August 2025, with 103 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
105
cumulative ha
30 Aug 2025
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 Oued Cheham

  1. 103 ha Oued Cheham fire, August 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1 ha Hanancha fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 232 ha in total · 1 day

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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