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Wildfires in Mascaraمعسكر

Mascara, Algeria: 4 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 46 communes since 2016, burning 6,132 hectares inside the region. The largest was Makdha in July 2026, with 4,691 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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
6,132ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.1%
5,761 km²
fires
4
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 46
Largest fire
4,691ha
Makdha · July 2026
Inhabitants
753,154
8.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 24° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 22° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 24° · 33 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 53 % · 31 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. Makdha 5,235 inhabitants 2,766 ha · 22 %
  2. Nesmoth 5,527 inhabitants 1,349 ha · 14 %
  3. Sfisef 29,696 inhabitants 805 ha · 6.4 %
  4. Aouf 7,887 inhabitants 643 ha · 4.0 %
  5. Aïn Adden 2,886 inhabitants 310 ha · 3.4 %
  6. Sidi Boussaid 4,483 inhabitants 260 ha · 3.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest53 %
  • Other natural land34 %
  • Agricultural areas7.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest5.0 %

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
202625,017 Makdha 4,691 ha
20171142 Aïn Adden 142 ha
20161973 Sfisef 973 ha

All fires in Mascara · 4

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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