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Wildfires in Batnaباتنة

Batna, Algeria: 7 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 56 communes since 2016, burning 1,072 hectares inside the region. The largest was Batna in July 2018, with 376 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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
1,072ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
11,679 km²
fires
7
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 56
Largest fire
376ha
Batna · July 2018
Inhabitants
1,111,473
1.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 18° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 17° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 20° · 27 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 19° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 19° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 18° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 17° · 39 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 17° · 39 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Fesdis 7,517 inhabitants 302 ha · 3.5 %
  2. Batna 290,645 inhabitants 150 ha · 1.3 %
  3. Djerma 3,436 inhabitants 139 ha · 1.4 %
  4. Seriana 15,445 inhabitants 125 ha · 0.7 %
  5. Ras El Aioun 22,551 inhabitants 115 ha · 1.0 %
  6. Oued Taga 18,116 inhabitants 113 ha · 0.4 %
  7. Oued El Ma 20,288 inhabitants 87 ha · 0.4 %
  8. El Hassi 7,990 inhabitants 39 ha · 0.7 %
  9. Ouyoun El Assafir 11,503 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.0 %
  10. Hamma 13,223 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest67 %
  • Other natural land23 %
  • Agricultural areas6.6 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.3 %

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
20263364 Oued El Ma 126 ha
20203331 Djerma 216 ha
20181376 Batna 376 ha

All fires in Batna · 7

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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