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MA · Morocco · Fez-Meknes · 122,256 inhabitants

Wildfires in Taounate إقليم تاونات

Taounate, Morocco, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 615 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% 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 23 Moderate 26° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 27° · 30 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 19 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 27° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 27° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 34 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 29° · 30 % · 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

615
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
5
fires
5,609
km²

How many times has Taounate burned?

Taounate has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Taounate fire, August 2023, with 114 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
615
cumulative ha
23 Aug 2023
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 Taounate

  1. 114 ha Taounate fire, August 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 151 ha Taounate fire, August 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 16 ha Al Hoceima fire, 18 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 439 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 103 ha Taounate fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 231 ha Taounate fire, August 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 229 ha in total · 1 day

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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