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Wildfires in Constantineقسنطينة

Constantine, Algeria: 43 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 19 communes since 2016, burning 35,740 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ibn Badis in July 2026, with 6,060 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
35,740ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
2,869 km²
fires
43
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 19
Largest fire
6,060ha
Ibn Badis · July 2026
Inhabitants
586,137
61.0 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 23° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 19° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 24° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 22° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 21° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 20° · 61 % · 25 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. Ibn Badis 18,735 inhabitants 14,695 ha · 46 %
  2. Aïn Smara 36,998 inhabitants 3,563 ha · 25 %
  3. Grarem Gouga 42,062 inhabitants 2,666 ha · 19 %
  4. Didouche Mourad 33,266 inhabitants 2,472 ha · 22 %
  5. Constantine 179,033 inhabitants 2,383 ha · 13 %
  6. Sidi Maarouf 21,662 inhabitants 2,061 ha · 31 %
  7. El Khroub 1,829 ha · 7.1 %
  8. Settara 15,155 inhabitants 1,741 ha · 24 %
  9. Ibn Ziad 18,861 inhabitants 1,460 ha · 9.8 %
  10. Hamala 11,213 inhabitants 1,085 ha · 17 %
  11. Ghebala 5,236 inhabitants 522 ha · 4.2 %
  12. Sigus 17,598 inhabitants 353 ha · 1.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest59 %
  • Other natural land32 %
  • Agricultural areas8.0 %
  • 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
20261516,152 Ibn Badis 6,060 ha
20252486 Aïn Tinn 343 ha
20233588 El Milia 354 ha
202234,371 Ibn Badis 3,602 ha
202123,450 El Khroub 2,644 ha
202093,738 Didouche Mourad 1,496 ha
201924,538 Aïn Smara 2,497 ha
201742,186 Ibn Badis 1,310 ha
20163230 Zighoud Youcef 102 ha

All fires in Constantine · 43

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).