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Wildfires in Guelmaقالمة

Guelma, Algeria: 55 fires with a page have entered 23 of its 30 communes since 2016, burning 29,234 hectares inside the region. The largest was Djebala Khemissi in July 2026, with 4,996 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
29,234ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.4%
3,492 km²
fires
55
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
23
of 30
Largest fire
4,996ha
Djebala Khemissi · July 2026
Inhabitants
321,681
90.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 48 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 21° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 25° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 25° · 36 % · 46 km/h

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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. Roknia 9,752 inhabitants 5,796 ha · 29 %
  2. Djebala Khemissi 4,487 inhabitants 4,209 ha · 64 %
  3. Bouati Mahmoud 9,658 inhabitants 3,325 ha · 36 %
  4. Bordj Sabat 10,158 inhabitants 2,979 ha · 15 %
  5. Heliopolis 26,328 inhabitants 2,572 ha · 33 %
  6. Bouhamdane 4,394 inhabitants 1,870 ha · 12 %
  7. Selloua Anouna 3,244 inhabitants 1,191 ha · 12 %
  8. Belkheir 1,138 ha · 12 %
  9. Medjez Amar 7,703 inhabitants 835 ha · 22 %
  10. Guelaat Bou Sbaa 5,635 inhabitants 736 ha · 20 %
  11. Ain Larbi 7,604 inhabitants 705 ha · 4.3 %
  12. Hammam Debagh 16,391 inhabitants 667 ha · 12 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest52 %
  • Other natural land31 %
  • Agricultural areas17 %
  • 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
20261920,414 Djebala Khemissi 4,996 ha
20256783 Selloua Anouna 243 ha
202421,322 Belkheir 684 ha
2022186 Es Sebt 86 ha
20211123 Roknia 123 ha
2020123,528 Bendjarah 596 ha
201961,928 Roknia 718 ha
20177932 Bouhamdane 241 ha
20161119 Ain Larbi 119 ha

All fires in Guelma · 55

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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