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Wildfires in Taza إقليم تازة

Taza, Morocco, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 4,427 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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. Sun 25 Moderate 26° · 19 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 18 % · 24 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 26° · 23 % · 44 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 27° · 24 % · 40 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 35 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 26° · 33 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 26° · 20 % · 30 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

4,427
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
7
fires
6,112
km²

How many times has Taza burned?

Taza has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Taza fire, July 2024, with 174 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
4,427
cumulative ha
25 Jul 2024
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 Taza

  1. 174 ha Taza fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 173 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 109 ha Taza fire, 23 August 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,060 ha Taza fire, 12 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,688 ha Taza fire, July 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 433 ha Taza fire, June 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 432 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 650 ha Taza fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 651 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 312 ha Taza fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 312 ha in total · 3 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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