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Wildfires in Boumerdesبومرداس

Boumerdes, Algeria: 14 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 18 communes since 2016, burning 5,462 hectares inside the region. The largest was Timezrit in July 2023, with 2,521 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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
5,462ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.8%
1,145 km²
fires
14
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 18
Largest fire
2,521ha
Timezrit · July 2023
Inhabitants
409,465
13.3 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 27° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 24° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 22° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 46 % · 32 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. Thenia 21,439 inhabitants 1,449 ha · 33 %
  2. Naciria 22,431 inhabitants 1,144 ha · 20 %
  3. Timezrit 9,991 inhabitants 650 ha · 28 %
  4. Bordj Menaiel 64,820 inhabitants 561 ha · 5.8 %
  5. Chaabet El Ameur 33,459 inhabitants 453 ha · 5.9 %
  6. Isser 32,580 inhabitants 298 ha · 4.5 %
  7. Tidjelabine 18,266 inhabitants 289 ha · 7.0 %
  8. Si Mustapha 12,087 inhabitants 201 ha · 7.7 %
  9. Zemmouri 26,408 inhabitants 176 ha · 3.2 %
  10. Sidi Daoud 16,900 inhabitants 123 ha · 2.0 %
  11. Souk El Had 6,693 inhabitants 94 ha · 5.5 %
  12. Beni Amrane 23,621 inhabitants 15 ha · 0.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest71 %
  • Other natural land26 %
  • Agricultural areas1.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.9 %

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
2026181 Kadiria 81 ha
20242255 Tidjelabine 132 ha
202343,121 Timezrit 2,521 ha
20212240 Timezrit 132 ha
20202181 Si Mustapha 147 ha
201631,583 Zemmouri 746 ha

All fires in Boumerdes · 14

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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