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Wildfires in Tala Hamza تالة حمزة

Tala Hamza, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 637 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 9 Moderate 27° · 38 % · 50 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Moderate 28° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 35 % · 61 km/h
  4. Thu 12 High 29° · 33 % · 75 km/h
  5. Fri 13 High 25° · 39 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Moderate 26° · 41 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Moderate 23° · 44 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Tala Hamza: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

637
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
3
fires
38
km²

How many times has Tala Hamza burned?

Tala Hamza has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2023. The most recent: Amizour fire, October 2023, with 316 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 637 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 466 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
637
cumulative ha
466
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 Tala Hamza

  1. 316 ha Amizour fire, October 2023 8.3% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 184 ha Tala Hamza fire, August 2017 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 137 ha Tala Hamza fire, June 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 272 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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