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Wildfires in Soumaa الصومعة

Soumaa, Algeria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 82 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 22° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 22° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 21° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 41 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 63 % · 23 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

82
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
2
fires
28
km²

How many times has Soumaa burned?

Soumaa has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Bouinan fire, September 2023, with 4 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
82
cumulative ha
17 Sept 2023
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 Soumaa

  1. 4 ha Bouinan fire, September 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 557 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 78 ha Soumaa fire, August 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 1 day

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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