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DZ · Algeria · Souk Ahras · 18,933 inhabitants

Wildfires in Taoura تاورة

Taoura, Algeria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 415 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Fri 30 Low 20° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 19° · 41 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 18° · 40 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 15° · 57 % · 50 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 20° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 21° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 21° · 47 % · 22 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

415
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
3
fires
257
km²

How many times has Taoura burned?

Taoura has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Taoura fire, October 2019, with 165 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
415
cumulative ha
5 Oct 2019
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 Taoura

  1. 165 ha Taoura fire, October 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 275 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 131 ha Taoura fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 119 ha Taoura fire, July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 119 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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