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Wildfires in Biskraبسكرة

Biskra, Algeria: 5 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 34 communes since 2016, burning 2,866 hectares inside the region. The largest was Oumache in July 2019, with 747 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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
2,866ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
19,231 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 34
Largest fire
747ha
Oumache · July 2019
Inhabitants
725,227
4.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 High 26° · 20 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 26° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 26° · 25 % · 21 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 25° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 24° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 24° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 22° · 58 % · 20 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. Oumache 10,336 inhabitants 1,579 ha · 1.9 %
  2. M'Ziraa 7,601 inhabitants 691 ha · 0.7 %
  3. El Feidh 12,602 inhabitants 596 ha · 0.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas69 %
  • Other natural land22 %
  • Mixed forest8.9 %

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
20262832 Oumache 663 ha
201921,343 Oumache 747 ha
20161691 M'Ziraa 691 ha

All fires in Biskra · 5

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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