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MA · Morocco · Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima · 412,713 inhabitants

Wildfires in Chefchaouen إقليم شفشاون

Chefchaouen, Morocco, has had 22 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 11,553 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 23 Very low 22° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 23° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 24° · 31 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 15 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 26 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 31 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 25° · 37 % · 24 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

11,553
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
22
fires
3,899
km²

How many times has Chefchaouen burned?

Chefchaouen has burned 22 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chefchaouen fire, September 2026, with 434 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
22
fires
10
years with fire
11,553
cumulative ha
25 Sept 2026
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 Morocco →

Fires that entered Chefchaouen

  1. 434 ha Chefchaouen fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 434 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 314 ha Chefchaouen fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 313 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,542 ha Chefchaouen fire, 12 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,538 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 212 ha Chefchaouen fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 211 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 546 ha Chefchaouen fire, April 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 546 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 207 ha Chefchaouen fire, September 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 207 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 921 ha Chefchaouen fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 920 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 123 ha Chefchaouen fire, July 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 210 ha Chefchaouen fire, October 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 209 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 2,133 ha Chefchaouen fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 153 ha Chefchaouen fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 153 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 818 ha Chefchaouen fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 864 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 606 ha Larache fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 552 ha Chefchaouen fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 552 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 127 ha Chefchaouen fire, March 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 251 ha Chefchaouen fire, September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 250 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,221 ha Chefchaouen fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,216 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 165 ha Chefchaouen fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 164 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 113 ha Chefchaouen fire, October 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 347 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 268 ha Chefchaouen fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 267 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 126 ha Chefchaouen fire, 12 September 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 511 ha Chefchaouen fire, 7 September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 510 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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