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Wildfires in Tamalous تمالوس

Tamalous, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,001 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% 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. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 70 % · 34 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 23° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 22° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 27° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 26° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Moderate 26° · 50 % · 34 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 Tamalous: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,001
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
5
fires
178
km²

How many times has Tamalous burned?

Tamalous has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Tamalous fire, August 2026, with 222 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,001 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 952 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
1,001
cumulative ha
952
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 Tamalous

  1. 222 ha Tamalous fire, August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 222 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 220 ha Oum Toub fire, August 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 3,814 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 27 ha Kerkera fire, July 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 99 ha Bin El Ouiden fire, August 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 229 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 432 ha Tamalous fire, August 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 472 ha in total · 4 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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