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Wildfires in Souk Ahrasسوق أهراس

Souk Ahras, Algeria: 42 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 26 communes since 2016, burning 17,681 hectares inside the region. The largest was Zaarouria in August 2022, with 6,267 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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
17,681ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.0%
4,442 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 26
Largest fire
6,267ha
Zaarouria · August 2022
Inhabitants
489,446
36.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Low 18° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 20° · 42 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 20° · 36 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Moderate 21° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 23° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 24° · 30 % · 32 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. Zaarouria 11,234 inhabitants 5,302 ha · 33 %
  2. Medjez Sfa 7,707 inhabitants 5,161 ha · 37 %
  3. Mechroha 21,802 inhabitants 1,562 ha · 7.0 %
  4. Hanancha 15,790 inhabitants 1,246 ha · 6.0 %
  5. Tiffech 6,037 inhabitants 836 ha · 6.0 %
  6. Souk Ahras 155,259 inhabitants 792 ha · 18 %
  7. Zouabi 2,792 inhabitants 486 ha · 3.9 %
  8. Oued Zitoun 5,881 inhabitants 474 ha · 9.4 %
  9. Ouled Driss 11,303 inhabitants 433 ha · 2.9 %
  10. Taoura 18,933 inhabitants 415 ha · 1.6 %
  11. Sedrata 53,218 inhabitants 256 ha · 1.4 %
  12. Ouillen 6,544 inhabitants 234 ha · 1.5 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest47 %
  • Other natural land43 %
  • Agricultural areas7.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.8 %

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
202691,923 Ain Zana 532 ha
20255997 Sedrata 276 ha
202247,971 Zaarouria 6,267 ha
202142,496 Beni Salah 1,570 ha
202061,574 Medjez Sfa 732 ha
20193455 Taoura 276 ha
20181119 Taoura 119 ha
201791,985 Boucheghouf 736 ha
20161160 Mechroha 160 ha

All fires in Souk Ahras · 42

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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