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Wildfires in Bejaiaبجاية

Bejaia, Algeria: 113 fires with a page have entered 45 of its 56 communes since 2016, burning 96,573 hectares inside the region. The largest was Taourirt Ighil in July 2023, with 14,264 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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
96,573ha
Since 2016
Of the region
25%
3,932 km²
fires
113
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
45
of 56
Largest fire
14,264ha
Taourirt Ighil · July 2023
Inhabitants
849,679
113.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Moderate 26° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 22° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 55 % · 38 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 20° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 18° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 58 % · 35 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. Toudja 9,827 inhabitants 16,042 ha · 95 %
  2. Beni Ksila 4,385 inhabitants 10,873 ha · 59 %
  3. Boukhelifa 8,766 inhabitants 8,325 ha · 72 %
  4. El Kseur 29,842 inhabitants 6,886 ha · 71 %
  5. Zekri 3,286 inhabitants 5,952 ha · 67 %
  6. Tizi N'Berber 12,624 inhabitants 5,897 ha · 1.1×
  7. Tichy 16,546 inhabitants 5,098 ha · 92 %
  8. Adekar 3,344 ha · 31 %
  9. Barbacha 16,901 inhabitants 3,120 ha · 37 %
  10. Ouzellaguen 22,719 inhabitants 2,812 ha · 48 %
  11. Kendira 5,364 inhabitants 2,509 ha · 55 %
  12. Amizour 37,562 inhabitants 2,387 ha · 22 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest63 %
  • Other natural land36 %
  • Agricultural areas0.8 %

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
20261918,835 Tichy 3,280 ha
202551,770 Teniet Ennasr 1,154 ha
20242993 Ouzellaguen 834 ha
20232126,435 Taourirt Ighil 14,264 ha
202271,304 Boukhelifa 543 ha
20211427,722 Toudja 9,905 ha
2020208,352 Bousselam 1,513 ha
201951,756 Aokas 1,267 ha
2017136,705 Beni Ksila 1,534 ha
201672,701 Bejaia 845 ha

All fires in Bejaia · 113

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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