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DZ · Algeria · Khenchela · 8,617 inhabitants

Wildfires in Tamza طامزة

Tamza, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 6,843 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Moderate 20° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 18° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 17° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 16° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 14° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 14° · 40 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 15° · 54 % · 46 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

6,843
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
3
fires
485
km²

How many times has Tamza burned?

Tamza has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Tamza fire, August 2021, with 270 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
6,843
cumulative ha
4 Aug 2021
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 Tamza

  1. 270 ha Tamza fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 281 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 915 ha Tamza fire, 4 July 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 920 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 5,658 ha Tamza fire, 4 July 2021 where it started 12% of the municipality · 9,168 ha in total · 7 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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