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Wildfires in Médéaالمدية

Médéa, Algeria: 67 fires with a page have entered 25 of its 67 communes since 2016, burning 29,068 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ouled Hellal in 6 August 2020, with 3,892 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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
29,068ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.0%
9,662 km²
fires
67
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
25
of 67
Largest fire
3,892ha
Ouled Hellal · 6 August 2020
Inhabitants
889,099
32.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 19° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 19° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 19° · 30 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 22° · 27 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 24 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 47 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Ouled Hellal 3,367 inhabitants 9,800 ha · 46 %
  2. Ouled Antar 4,269 ha · 21 %
  3. Baata 856 inhabitants 2,534 ha · 21 %
  4. Bouchrahil 11,633 inhabitants 1,810 ha · 12 %
  5. Boghar 5,972 inhabitants 1,736 ha · 14 %
  6. Zoubiria 9,236 inhabitants 1,729 ha · 8.2 %
  7. Ouled Bouachra 890 inhabitants 1,514 ha · 15 %
  8. Bouaichoune 4,309 inhabitants 1,304 ha · 16 %
  9. El Hamdania 1,264 inhabitants 512 ha · 3.6 %
  10. El Omaria 20,705 inhabitants 468 ha · 4.0 %
  11. Ouzera 12,650 inhabitants 463 ha · 4.5 %
  12. Meghraoua 5,647 inhabitants 401 ha · 5.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest47 %
  • Other natural land44 %
  • Agricultural areas5.3 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.9 %

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
20266763 Mihoub 338 ha
20253615 Ouzera 345 ha
20233606 El Hamdania 439 ha
20211394 Aïn Romana 394 ha
20202512,576 Ouled Hellal 3,892 ha
201983,192 Bouchrahil 1,400 ha
20171710,505 Ouled Antar 2,893 ha
20164416 Ouled Hellal 169 ha

All fires in Médéa · 67

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).