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Wildfires in Aleg

Aleg, Mauritania, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2023: 1,036 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Sun 25 Extreme 42° · 10 % · 46 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Extreme 41° · 12 % · 38 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Extreme 37° · 6 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 35° · 25 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 38° · 15 % · 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

1,036
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
15,779
km²

How many times has Aleg burned?

Aleg has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2023. The most recent: Aleg fire, December 2023, with 1,036 hectares inside the municipality.

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  8. 1× 23
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  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
1,036
cumulative ha
19 Dec 2023
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Mauritania →

Fires that entered Aleg

  1. 1,036 ha Aleg fire, December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,029 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/World Food Programme, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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