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Wildfires in Skikdaسكيكدة

Skikda, Algeria: 120 fires with a page have entered 36 of its 37 communes since 2016, burning 78,218 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ain Charchar in 17 July 2026, with 11,685 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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
78,218ha
Since 2016
Of the region
15%
5,292 km²
fires
120
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
36
of 37
Largest fire
11,685ha
Ain Charchar · 17 July 2026
Inhabitants
842,305
92.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 79 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 19° · 65 % · 39 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 51 % · 22 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. Oum Toub 34,458 inhabitants 8,239 ha · 46 %
  2. Bekkouche Lakhdar 15,176 inhabitants 6,726 ha · 45 %
  3. Ain Charchar 15,725 inhabitants 6,447 ha · 56 %
  4. Es Sebt 15,266 inhabitants 6,374 ha · 26 %
  5. Djendel Saadi Mohamed 8,655 inhabitants 5,163 ha · 24 %
  6. Azzaba 56,922 inhabitants 5,106 ha · 30 %
  7. Zighoud Youcef 35,248 inhabitants 4,630 ha · 19 %
  8. Ouled Hbaba 8,369 inhabitants 3,961 ha · 20 %
  9. Ramdane Djamel 27,194 inhabitants 3,228 ha · 28 %
  10. Ain Kechra 3,211 ha · 22 %
  11. Ain Bouziane 9,591 inhabitants 2,590 ha · 36 %
  12. Kanoua 6,995 inhabitants 2,417 ha · 35 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest59 %
  • Other natural land30 %
  • Agricultural areas9.6 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.6 %

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
20263150,470 Ain Charchar 11,685 ha
20241124 Ouldja Boulballout 124 ha
202373,388 Kerkera 2,713 ha
202293,288 Kanoua 1,325 ha
202193,703 Sidi Mezghiche 1,042 ha
2020215,094 Oum Toub 710 ha
201983,519 Es Sebt 934 ha
2017297,633 Ain Kechra 1,368 ha
20165997 Zighoud Youcef 440 ha

All fires in Skikda · 120

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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