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Wildfires in Roknia بلدية الركنية

Roknia, Algeria, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 5,796 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 28 Very low 21° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 65 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 71 % · 39 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 73 % · 43 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 77 % · 44 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

5,796
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
14
fires
203
km²

How many times has Roknia burned?

Roknia has burned 14 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Eulma fire, August 2026, with 6 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,796 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,299 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
14
fires
6
years with fire
5,796
cumulative ha
5,299
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 Roknia

  1. 6 ha Eulma fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 20,949 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 705 ha Roknia fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 705 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,951 ha Ain Charchar fire, 17 July 2026 15% of the municipality · 14,609 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 296 ha Roknia fire, 13 July 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 302 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 86 ha Es Sebt fire, August 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 123 ha Roknia fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 454 ha Roknia fire, August 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 454 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 47 ha Bouati Mahmoud fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 194 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 453 ha Roknia fire, August 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 716 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 95 ha Es Sebt fire, August 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 15 ha Bouhamdane fire, July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 408 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 170 ha Roknia fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 170 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 197 ha Roknia fire, 29 July 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 197 ha Es Sebt fire, July 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 265 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).

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