Wildfires in Bouiraالبويرة
Bouira, Algeria: 11 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 26 communes since 2016, burning 20,808 hectares inside the region. The largest was El Hachimia in July 2026, with 16,494 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).
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
- 20,808ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.1%
- 3,397 km²
- fires
- 11
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 12
- of 26
- Largest fire
- 16,494ha
- El Hachimia · July 2026
- Inhabitants
- 370,086
- 56.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 30 High 22° · 40 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 20° · 43 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 50 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 18° · 42 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 3 High 20° · 33 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 18° · 49 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 21° · 43 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 6 Moderate 22° · 34 % · 32 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- El Hachimia 17,322 inhabitants 7,853 ha · 32 %
- Bordj Oukhris 10,467 inhabitants 5,829 ha · 37 %
- Oued El Bardi 10,767 inhabitants 2,656 ha · 23 %
- Djebahia 15,592 inhabitants 1,787 ha · 25 %
- Ahnif 9,685 inhabitants 1,384 ha · 8.7 %
- Ain Turk 7,849 inhabitants 449 ha · 11 %
- Ahl El Ksar 13,354 inhabitants 380 ha · 3.6 %
- Sour El Ghozlane 50,120 inhabitants 180 ha · 1.0 %
- El Mokrani 3,961 inhabitants 139 ha · 2.5 %
- Saharidj 8,522 inhabitants 100 ha · 1.1 %
- Souk El Khemis 8,003 inhabitants 35 ha · 0.5 %
- El Hakimia 2,212 inhabitants 17 ha · 0.2 %
What burns in the region
- Mixed forest59 %
- Other natural land34 %
- Broadleaved forest4.3 %
- Agricultural areas1.9 %
- Other land cover0.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Ahnif1,384 ha
- 3×El Mokrani139 ha
- 2×El Hachimia7,853 ha
- 2×Bordj Oukhris5,829 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 16,494 haEl Hachimia الهاشميةJuly 2026 · 19 days
- 2,236 haDjebahia الجباحيةJuly 2023 · 2 days of 2,651 ha in total
- 706 haHaraza حرازةAugust 2020 · 3 days of 890 ha in total
- 556 haAhnif الحانيفAugust 2019 · 5 days
- 241 haEl Hachimia الهاشميةJuly 2019 · 3 days
- 180 haSour El Ghozlane سور الغزلانJuly 2017 · 4 days
- 121 haAhnif الحانيفJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 104 haEl Mokrani المقرانيJuly 2026 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 16,598 | El Hachimia 16,494 ha |
| 2023 | 3 | 2,358 | Djebahia 2,236 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 121 | Ahnif 121 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 706 | Haraza 706 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 844 | Ahnif 556 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 180 | Sour El Ghozlane 180 ha |
All fires in Bouira · 11
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 104 haEl Mokrani المقرانيJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 16,494 haEl Hachimia الهاشميةJuly 2026 · 19 days
- 2,236 haDjebahia الجباحيةJuly 2023 · 2 days of 2,651 ha in total
- 23 haZbarbar معالة20 July 2023 · 6 days of 2,687 ha in total
- 100 haSaharidj الصھاريجJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 121 haAhnif الحانيفJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 706 haHaraza حرازةAugust 2020 · 3 days of 890 ha in total
- 556 haAhnif الحانيفAugust 2019 · 5 days
- 241 haEl Hachimia الهاشميةJuly 2019 · 3 days
- 47 haMeghraoua مغراوةJuly 2019 · 1 day of 173 ha in total
- 180 haSour El Ghozlane سور الغزلانJuly 2017 · 4 days
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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