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Wildfires in Ouled Antar

Ouled Antar, Algeria, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 4,269 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Wed 11 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 57 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 22° · 46 % · 68 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 20° · 47 % · 46 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 22° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Moderate 22° · 40 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 19° · 43 % · 44 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 20° · 53 % · 39 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Moderate 24° · 44 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ouled Antar: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,269
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
14
fires
206
km²

How many times has Ouled Antar burned?

Ouled Antar has burned 14 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Ouled Antar fire, 23 August 2020, with 297 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
14
fires
3
years with fire
4,269
cumulative ha
23 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 Ouled Antar

  1. 297 ha Ouled Antar fire, 23 August 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 924 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 431 ha Ouled Antar fire, 22 August 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 429 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 252 ha Ouled Antar fire, 9 August 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 299 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 373 ha Ouled Antar fire, 9 August 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 687 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 213 ha Ouled Antar fire, 27 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 213 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 348 ha Ouled Antar fire, 20 July 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 363 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 318 ha Ouled Antar fire, 11 July 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 326 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 84 ha Ouled Antar fire, 3 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 5 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 2 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,014 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 16 ha Zoubiria fire, July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 8 ha Boghar fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 491 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 23 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 11 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 27 ha Ouled Bouachra fire, 10 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,873 ha Ouled Antar fire, July 2017 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 2,886 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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