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Wildfires in Jijelجيجل

Jijel, Algeria: 127 fires with a page have entered 29 of its 31 communes since 2016, burning 113,873 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chekfa in August 2026, with 44,982 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
113,873ha
Since 2016
Of the region
39%
2,893 km²
fires
127
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
29
of 31
Largest fire
44,982ha
Chekfa · August 2026
Inhabitants
652,072
174.6 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very low 22° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 22° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 74 % · 22 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. Ziama Mansouriah 12,642 inhabitants 10,728 ha · 96 %
  2. Texenna 15,682 inhabitants 9,459 ha · 58 %
  3. Darguina 14,146 inhabitants 8,161 ha · 97 %
  4. El Ancer 20,070 inhabitants 7,848 ha · 70 %
  5. Chahna 8,781 inhabitants 6,935 ha · 81 %
  6. Boussif Ouled Askeur 6,542 ha · 65 %
  7. Oudjana 9,580 inhabitants 6,497 ha · 1.1×
  8. Ouled Yahia Khedrouche 18,323 inhabitants 6,348 ha · 77 %
  9. Bordj Tahar 3,889 inhabitants 5,774 ha · 1.1×
  10. Melbou 11,396 inhabitants 4,417 ha · 93 %
  11. Tamridjet 8,413 inhabitants 4,289 ha · 89 %
  12. Selma Ben Ziada 920 inhabitants 4,223 ha · 35 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest63 %
  • Other natural land34 %
  • Agricultural areas1.3 %

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
20262688,153 Chekfa 44,982 ha
20254657 Ziama Mansouriah 368 ha
2023289,597 Melbou 3,045 ha
20224639 Darguina 228 ha
2021163,964 Chekfa 1,895 ha
2020336,474 Ziama Mansouriah 586 ha
201961,632 Aokas 516 ha
201782,620 Oudjana 1,052 ha
20162138 Ziama Mansouriah 132 ha

All fires in Jijel · 127

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).