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Wildfires in Setifسطيف

Setif, Algeria: 27 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 35 communes since 2016, burning 7,046 hectares inside the region. The largest was El Ayadi Barbes in 21 July 2026, with 1,087 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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
7,046ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
5,581 km²
fires
27
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 35
Largest fire
1,087ha
El Ayadi Barbes · 21 July 2026
Inhabitants
1,089,914
6.5 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 22° · 27 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 20° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 19° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 21° · 39 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 23° · 25 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 22° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 53 % · 23 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. Maaouia 7,005 inhabitants 1,647 ha · 19 %
  2. Djemila 24,145 inhabitants 1,585 ha · 10 %
  3. Draa El Kaid 29,221 inhabitants 876 ha · 7.4 %
  4. Rosfa 16,075 inhabitants 825 ha · 4.4 %
  5. Kherrata 35,077 inhabitants 586 ha · 6.0 %
  6. Oued El Bared 2,333 inhabitants 462 ha · 9.4 %
  7. Boutaleb 9,456 inhabitants 449 ha · 3.1 %
  8. Tizi N'Bechar 21,086 inhabitants 374 ha · 5.2 %
  9. Tachouda 7,578 inhabitants 166 ha · 2.1 %
  10. Belaa 14,666 inhabitants 75 ha · 0.5 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest47 %
  • Other natural land47 %
  • Agricultural areas4.5 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.5 %

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
2026112,877 El Ayadi Barbes 1,087 ha
20252212 Boutaleb 210 ha
20231109 Kherrata 109 ha
202241,192 Djemila 439 ha
2021110 Darguina 10 ha
202061,772 Rosfa 850 ha
20192873 Maaouia 758 ha

All fires in Setif · 27

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).