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DZ · Algeria · Souk Ahras · 155,259 inhabitants

Wildfires in Souk Ahras سوق أهراس

Souk Ahras, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 792 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 69 % · 52 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 35 % · 24 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 45 % · 46 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 21° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 23° · 41 % · 30 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

792
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
2
fires
45
km²

How many times has Souk Ahras burned?

Souk Ahras has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Zaarouria fire, August 2022, with 539 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 792 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 605 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
792
cumulative ha
605
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 Souk Ahras

  1. 539 ha Zaarouria fire, August 2022 12% of the municipality · 6,254 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 253 ha Souk Ahras fire, August 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 379 ha in total · 5 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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