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Wildfires in Oumache أوماش

Oumache, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,579 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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 26 High 26° · 24 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 25° · 30 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 26° · 26 % · 21 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 24° · 42 % · 12 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 25° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 24° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 22° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 22° · 52 % · 25 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

1,579
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
3
fires
817
km²

How many times has Oumache burned?

Oumache has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Oumache fire, 11 August 2026, with 170 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,579 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,114 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,579
cumulative ha
1,114
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 Oumache

  1. 170 ha Oumache fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 169 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 663 ha Oumache fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 661 ha in total · 43 days
  3. 747 ha Oumache fire, July 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 745 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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