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Wildfires in Souhane صوحان

Souhane, Algeria, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,626 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 21° · 53 % · 40 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 21° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 19° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 23° · 48 % · 41 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

2,626
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
6
fires
72
km²

How many times has Souhane burned?

Souhane has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Larbaa fire, October 2023, with 61 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,626 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,211 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
2,626
cumulative ha
2,211
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 Souhane

  1. 61 ha Larbaa fire, October 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 136 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 373 ha Souhane fire, September 2023 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 523 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 573 ha Souhane fire, July 2023 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 1,520 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 835 ha Deux Bassins fire, August 2021 12% of the municipality · 3,849 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 649 ha Souhane fire, 6 July 2017 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 901 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 134 ha Souhane fire, 5 July 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 134 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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