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Wildfires in Souarekh السوارخ

Souarekh, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,524 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 31 Very low 20° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 67 % · 55 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 53 % · 68 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 57 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 23° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 61 % · 37 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 78 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 71 % · 24 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

2,524
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
3
fires
86
km²

How many times has Souarekh burned?

Souarekh has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Souarekh fire, August 2022, with 997 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
2,524
cumulative ha
17 Aug 2022
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 Souarekh

  1. 997 ha Souarekh fire, August 2022 where it started 12% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 158 ha Souarekh fire, August 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,370 ha Souarekh fire, August 2017 where it started 16% of the municipality · 2,599 ha in total · 3 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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