Wildfires in Algiersالجزائر
Algiers, Algeria: 2 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 53 communes since 2016, burning 473 hectares inside the region. The largest was Boudouaou in August 2020, with 340 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 473ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.4%
- 1,156 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 53
- Largest fire
- 340ha
- Boudouaou · August 2020
- Inhabitants
- 2,533,829
- 0.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 23° · 56 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 22° · 57 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 22° · 52 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 23° · 49 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 24° · 46 % · 38 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 23° · 69 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 23° · 63 % · 40 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 23° · 58 % · 32 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Boudouaou 71,238 inhabitants 473 ha · 11 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land52 %
- Mixed forest47 %
- Agricultural areas1.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 2×Boudouaou473 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 340 haBoudouaou بودواوAugust 2020 · 1 day of 396 ha in total
- 134 haBoudouaou بودواوAugust 2019 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Algiers · 2
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).