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Wildfires in Tipazaتيبازة

Tipaza, Algeria: 58 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 23 communes since 2016, burning 21,489 hectares inside the region. The largest was Messelmoun in November 2025, with 2,107 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
21,489ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.3%
2,598 km²
fires
58
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 23
Largest fire
2,107ha
Messelmoun · November 2025
Inhabitants
296,652
72.4 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 Low 25° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 21° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 22° · 57 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 21° · 43 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 63 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 19° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 19° · 56 % · 32 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. Messelmoun 5,832 ha · 29 %
  2. Arib 2,930 ha · 13 %
  3. Gouraya 20,144 inhabitants 2,718 ha · 31 %
  4. Hadjret Ennous 2,150 inhabitants 1,688 ha · 67 %
  5. Ben Allel 9,068 inhabitants 1,667 ha · 12 %
  6. Sidi Semiane 2,930 inhabitants 1,220 ha · 17 %
  7. Cherchell 1,214 ha · 9.8 %
  8. Tipaza 25,225 inhabitants 1,144 ha · 17 %
  9. Hammam Righa 8,488 inhabitants 1,100 ha · 13 %
  10. Larhat 7,359 inhabitants 802 ha · 13 %
  11. Merad 19,916 inhabitants 295 ha · 2.2 %
  12. Aghbal 7,122 inhabitants 254 ha · 8.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Mixed forest67 %
  • Other natural land31 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.4 %

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
20261178 Hammam Righa 178 ha
202522,248 Messelmoun 2,107 ha
20231205 Messelmoun 205 ha
202242,710 Tipaza 1,250 ha
20212308 Messelmoun 158 ha
20203010,540 Gouraya 1,371 ha
201971,975 Gouraya 658 ha
20181139 Messelmoun 139 ha
201782,508 Arib 1,025 ha
20162679 Ben Allel 467 ha

All fires in Tipaza · 58

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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