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Wildfires in El Tarfالطارف

El Tarf, Algeria: 131 fires with a page have entered 19 of its 21 communes since 2016, burning 82,190 hectares inside the region. The largest was Buqus in 23 July 2017, with 7,186 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
82,190ha
Since 2016
Of the region
27%
3,088 km²
fires
131
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
19
of 21
Largest fire
7,186ha
Buqus · 23 July 2017
Inhabitants
612,502
134.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 51 % · 49 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 39 % · 20 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. Chefia 8,195 inhabitants 12,136 ha · 63 %
  2. Zitouna 9,736 inhabitants 11,893 ha · 74 %
  3. Hammam Beni Salah 5,235 inhabitants 10,112 ha · 48 %
  4. Buqus 11,234 inhabitants 9,490 ha · 44 %
  5. El Tarf 25,594 inhabitants 7,380 ha · 65 %
  6. Chihani 10,094 inhabitants 6,805 ha · 34 %
  7. Al Qala 28,411 inhabitants 6,781 ha · 24 %
  8. Aïn El Assel 16,285 inhabitants 3,275 ha · 34 %
  9. Asfour 11,447 inhabitants 3,180 ha · 30 %
  10. Bouteldja 17,738 inhabitants 2,830 ha · 25 %
  11. Souarekh 8,173 inhabitants 2,524 ha · 30 %
  12. Lac des Oiseaux 10,624 inhabitants 1,474 ha · 17 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest66 %
  • Other natural land31 %
  • Agricultural areas2.3 %
  • 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
20261616,448 El Tarf 6,390 ha
20251740 Chihani 740 ha
20241193 Bouhadjar 193 ha
202334,236 Chefia 2,104 ha
20221518,332 Bouteldja 6,426 ha
2021128,825 Chefia 2,766 ha
2020267,874 Chefia 965 ha
201961,359 Hammam Beni Salah 498 ha
20174321,842 Buqus 7,186 ha
201682,342 Lac des Oiseaux 1,040 ha

All fires in El Tarf · 131

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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