Wildfires in Khenchelaخنشلة
Khenchela, Algeria: 9 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 24 communes since 2016, burning 12,044 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tamza in 4 July 2021, with 9,193 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).
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
- 12,044ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.3%
- 9,451 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 24
- Largest fire
- 9,193ha
- Tamza · 4 July 2021
- Inhabitants
- 288,593
- 41.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 High 26° · 41 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 30 High 25° · 41 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 31 High 23° · 44 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 1 High 23° · 36 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 2 Very high 25° · 24 % · 43 km/h
- Tue 3 High 20° · 35 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 21° · 34 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 21° · 49 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Tamza 8,617 inhabitants 6,843 ha · 14 %
- Chelia 4,953 inhabitants 3,233 ha · 21 %
- Babar 9,257 inhabitants 895 ha · 0.3 %
- Bouhmama 10,614 inhabitants 560 ha · 1.4 %
- M'Sara 4,104 inhabitants 242 ha · 0.4 %
- El Hamma 12,051 inhabitants 120 ha · 0.6 %
- Khenchela 108,580 inhabitants 102 ha · 3.2 %
- Kais 28,724 inhabitants 30 ha · 0.5 %
- Taouzient 12,000 inhabitants 12 ha · 0.1 %
- Ensigha 7 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Mixed forest84 %
- Other natural land9.6 %
- Agricultural areas5.9 %
- Broadleaved forest0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 9,193 haTamza طامزة4 July 2021 · 7 days
- 923 haTamza طامزة4 July 2021 · 3 days
- 686 haBabar أنسيغةAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 282 haTamza طامزةAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 242 haM'Sara أمصارةAugust 2023 · 4 days
- 216 haBabar أنسيغةAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 210 haEl Hamma الحامةJuly 2026 · 41 days
- 158 haChelia شليةAugust 2021 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Khenchela · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 210 haEl Hamma الحامةJuly 2026 · 41 days
- 242 haM'Sara أمصارةAugust 2023 · 4 days
- 158 haChelia شليةAugust 2021 · 1 day
- 216 haBabar أنسيغةAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 282 haTamza طامزةAugust 2021 · 4 days
- 923 haTamza طامزة4 July 2021 · 3 days
- 9,193 haTamza طامزة4 July 2021 · 7 days
- 686 haBabar أنسيغةAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 133 haBouhmama بوحمامةJuly 2018 · 3 days
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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