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Wildfires in Ouled Hellal أولاد هلال

Ouled Hellal, Algeria, has had 17 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 9,800 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% 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. Fri 23 Very low 19° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 19° · 34 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 21° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 23° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 19° · 54 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 20° · 54 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 19° · 53 % · 35 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

9,800
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
17
fires
211
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ouled Hellal

  1. 198 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 14 August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 144 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 13 August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 144 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 27 ha Oued Djemaa fire, August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3,537 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 6 August 2020 where it started 17% of the municipality · 5,482 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 237 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 8 July 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 236 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,012 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 7 July 2020 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 2,014 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 19 ha Ouled Antar fire, 6 July 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 150 ha Ouled Hellal fire, June 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 472 ha Oued Djemaa fire, August 2019 2.2% of the municipality · 927 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 145 ha Wadi Ash Shurfaa fire, July 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 269 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 295 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 31 July 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 294 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 179 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 132 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 19 July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 348 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 12 July 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 682 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,438 ha Ouled Hellal fire, 11 July 2017 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 357 ha Ouled Antar fire, July 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 2,886 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 108 ha Ouled Hellal fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 2 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).