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Wildfires in Blidaالبليدة

Blida, Algeria: 46 fires with a page have entered 28 of its 50 communes since 2016, burning 27,601 hectares inside the region. The largest was Maala in June 2023, with 4,211 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
27,601ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.9%
2,797 km²
fires
46
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
28
of 50
Largest fire
4,211ha
Maala · June 2023
Inhabitants
1,378,195
20.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Low 22° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 20° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Low 20° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Low 22° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 32 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Low 20° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 22° · 55 % · 30 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. Maala 4,221 ha · 76 %
  2. Kadiria 3,678 ha · 39 %
  3. Zbarbar 5,296 inhabitants 3,116 ha · 53 %
  4. Souhane 260 inhabitants 2,626 ha · 37 %
  5. Boukram 5,647 inhabitants 2,501 ha · 27 %
  6. El Aïssaouia 3,763 inhabitants 2,029 ha · 16 %
  7. Bouinan 31,070 inhabitants 1,360 ha · 18 %
  8. Lakhdaria 59,746 inhabitants 1,181 ha · 13 %
  9. Guerrouma 14,570 inhabitants 1,016 ha · 11 %
  10. Deux Bassins 3,487 inhabitants 995 ha · 24 %
  11. Bougara 823 ha · 9.5 %
  12. Ammal 8,505 inhabitants 816 ha · 14 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest63 %
  • Other natural land35 %
  • Agricultural areas0.9 %
  • Other land cover0.6 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.6 %

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
202665,284 Kadiria 2,091 ha
20252524 Chrea 277 ha
20231110,616 Maala 4,211 ha
20221134 Bouinan 134 ha
202175,754 Deux Bassins 3,857 ha
202092,973 Ammal 757 ha
20191303 Bouchrahil 303 ha
201792,013 Souhane 902 ha

All fires in Blida · 46

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).