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Wildfires in Aïn Deflaعين الدفلى

Aïn Defla, Algeria: 42 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 30 communes since 2016, burning 26,487 hectares inside the region. The largest was Oued Djemaa in June 2019, with 3,923 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
26,487ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.3%
4,182 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 30
Largest fire
3,923ha
Oued Djemaa · June 2019
Inhabitants
603,861
43.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Low 18° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 17° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 20° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 22° · 43 % · 28 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Oued Djemaa 9,555 inhabitants 11,396 ha · 46 %
  2. Tarik Ibn Ziad 10,285 inhabitants 6,344 ha · 16 %
  3. El Amra 31,073 inhabitants 4,358 ha · 24 %
  4. Beni Bouattab 2,069 inhabitants 798 ha · 6.6 %
  5. Bathia 6,238 inhabitants 747 ha · 7.2 %
  6. Miliana 44,201 inhabitants 540 ha · 14 %
  7. Youssoufia 2,254 inhabitants 500 ha · 5.1 %
  8. El Hassania 4,037 inhabitants 457 ha · 3.1 %
  9. Boucaid 8,843 inhabitants 356 ha · 5.5 %
  10. El Maine 12,870 inhabitants 337 ha · 1.9 %
  11. Lazharia 8,071 inhabitants 205 ha · 1.7 %
  12. Bordj Emir Khaled 8,598 inhabitants 158 ha · 0.9 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest51 %
  • Other natural land44 %
  • Agricultural areas2.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.4 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202612,161 Oued Djemaa 2,161 ha
20232220 El Hassania 220 ha
20222816 Tarik Ibn Ziad 568 ha
202113,372 El Amra 3,372 ha
2020125,157 Ouled Hellal 1,603 ha
20191210,153 Oued Djemaa 3,923 ha
2018119 Messelmoun 19 ha
201761,588 Beni Bouattab 515 ha
201653,001 Oued Djemaa 1,443 ha

All fires in Aïn Defla · 42

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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