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Wildfires in Chlefالشلف

Chlef, Algeria: 16 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 36 communes since 2016, burning 6,050 hectares inside the region. The largest was El Marsa in August 2020, with 2,158 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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
6,050ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.5%
4,034 km²
fires
16
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 36
Largest fire
2,158ha
El Marsa · August 2020
Inhabitants
974,775
6.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 24° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 24° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 26° · 29 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 28° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 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. El Marsa 10,807 inhabitants 2,158 ha · 18 %
  2. Tenes 35,459 inhabitants 1,671 ha · 18 %
  3. Oued Ghoussine 6,453 inhabitants 694 ha · 8.8 %
  4. Ouled Ben Abdelkader 19,952 inhabitants 337 ha · 1.9 %
  5. Tadjena 24,413 inhabitants 241 ha · 2.1 %
  6. Zeboudja 26,539 inhabitants 211 ha · 1.6 %
  7. Talassa 11,503 inhabitants 207 ha · 3.0 %
  8. Beni Rachid 23,449 inhabitants 203 ha · 1.9 %
  9. Tacheta Zoughagha 23,397 inhabitants 171 ha · 0.9 %
  10. Moussadek 6,380 inhabitants 119 ha · 1.9 %
  11. Abou El Hassen 22,756 inhabitants 38 ha · 0.5 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest72 %
  • Other natural land22 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.9 %
  • Agricultural areas1.0 %

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
20222657 Tenes 546 ha
20211245 Tadjena 245 ha
202094,410 El Marsa 2,158 ha
20191310 Zeboudja 310 ha
20172370 Ouled Ben Abdelkader 199 ha
2016158 Lardjem 58 ha

All fires in Chlef · 16

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).