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Wildfires in Zekri زكري

Zekri, Algeria, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 6,095 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% 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. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 79 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 33 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 55 % · 27 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

6,095
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
10
fires
89
km²

How many times has Zekri burned?

Zekri has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Zekri fire, 15 August 2022, with 12 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,095 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,494 hectares, 61 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
6,095
cumulative ha
5,494
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 Zekri

  1. 12 ha Zekri fire, 15 August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 611 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 143 ha Zekri fire, 15 August 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 143 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 3,863 ha Zekri fire, August 2021 where it started 43% of the municipality · 7,342 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 112 ha Zekri fire, 26 August 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 390 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 246 ha Zekri fire, 11 August 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 427 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 570 ha Adekar fire, July 2020 6.4% of the municipality · 1,096 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 213 ha Zekri fire, August 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 273 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 0 ha Beni Ksila fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,404 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 224 ha Zekri fire, 25 October 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 713 ha Zekri fire, 24 October 2016 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 716 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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