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Wildfires in Zbarbar معالة

Zbarbar, Algeria, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 3,116 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 53% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 29 Low 22° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 21° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 18° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 19° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 57 % · 28 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

3,116
hectares burned
53 %
of its area
5
fires
59
km²

How many times has Zbarbar burned?

Zbarbar has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Zbarbar fire, 20 July 2023, with 992 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,116 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,015 hectares, 51 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
3,116
cumulative ha
3,015
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 Zbarbar

  1. 992 ha Zbarbar fire, 20 July 2023 where it started 17% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 145 ha Zbarbar fire, 7 July 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 145 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,178 ha Maala fire, June 2023 20% of the municipality · 4,202 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 801 ha Zbarbar fire, August 2021 where it started 14% of the municipality · 844 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1 ha Meghraoua fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 303 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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