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Wildfires in Milaميلة

Mila, Algeria: 20 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 30 communes since 2016, burning 7,153 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chekfa in August 2026, with 2,145 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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
7,153ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.3%
3,062 km²
fires
20
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 30
Largest fire
2,145ha
Chekfa · August 2026
Inhabitants
671,375
10.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Moderate 22° · 34 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 18° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 14° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 75 % · 37 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 15° · 65 % · 35 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. Babor 15,762 inhabitants 2,451 ha · 17 %
  2. Amira Arrès 19,405 inhabitants 2,147 ha · 26 %
  3. El Ayadi Barbes 6,459 inhabitants 1,506 ha · 18 %
  4. Tassadane Haddada 17,378 inhabitants 370 ha · 3.5 %
  5. Bouhatem 20,277 inhabitants 279 ha · 2.5 %
  6. Serdj El Ghoul 9,311 inhabitants 258 ha · 2.6 %
  7. Rouached 27,086 inhabitants 63 ha · 0.6 %
  8. Aïn Beida Harriche 21,013 inhabitants 58 ha · 0.9 %
  9. Mila 69,052 inhabitants 7 ha · 0.1 %
  10. Sidi Khelifa 4,746 inhabitants 7 ha · 0.1 %
  11. Minar Zarza 22,535 inhabitants 6 ha · 0.1 %
  12. Terrai Bainen 23,299 inhabitants 1 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest67 %
  • Other natural land30 %
  • Agricultural areas2.3 %

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
202685,664 Chekfa 2,145 ha
2025114 Aïn Tinn 14 ha
2022214 Eraguene 14 ha
202061,008 Babor 421 ha
20192275 Tamridjet 218 ha
20171179 Babor 179 ha

All fires in Mila · 20

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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