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Wildfires in Ouled Hbaba أولاد أحبابة

Ouled Hbaba, Algeria, has had 17 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,961 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 21° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Moderate 24° · 42 % · 45 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 24° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 25° · 40 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 12 High 23° · 39 % · 58 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Moderate 20° · 41 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Moderate 21° · 37 % · 30 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 Hbaba: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,961
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
17
fires
197
km²

How many times has Ouled Hbaba burned?

Ouled Hbaba has burned 17 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Ibn Badis fire, August 2026, with 927 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,961 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,475 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
17
fires
6
years with fire
3,961
cumulative ha
3,475
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 Ouled Hbaba

  1. 927 ha Ibn Badis fire, August 2026 4.7% of the municipality · 1,428 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 703 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, July 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 894 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2 ha Ibn Badis fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,593 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 111 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 20 August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 391 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 139 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 2 August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 933 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 468 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 30 July 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 188 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 392 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 92 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 175 ha Bordj Sabat fire, July 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 423 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 155 ha Bouhamdane fire, July 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 408 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 259 ha Ibn Badis fire, 30 July 2017 1.3% of the municipality · 526 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 172 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 403 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 206 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 219 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 186 ha Ouled Hbaba fire, 29 July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 235 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 24 ha Zighoud Youcef fire, July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 142 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 91 ha Ibn Badis fire, August 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 136 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 65 ha Ibn Badis fire, July 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 148 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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