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Wildfires in Tlemcenتلمسان

Tlemcen, Algeria: 13 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 51 communes since 2016, burning 30,038 hectares inside the region. The largest was Azails in July 2026, with 19,926 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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: 30,038ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 3.8%; 7,826 km²
fires: 13; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 18; of 51
Largest fire: 19,926ha; Azails · July 2026
Inhabitants: 959,864; 31.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Low 22° · 42 % · 41 km/h
Sat 24 Low 20° · 37 % · 26 km/h
Sun 25 Moderate 21° · 24 % · 24 km/h
Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 21 % · 27 km/h
Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 25 % · 30 km/h
Wed 28 Moderate 21° · 31 % · 32 km/h
Thu 29 Moderate 21° · 50 % · 32 km/h
Fri 30 Low 20° · 56 % · 33 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

Beni Snous 11,318 inhabitants 7,587 ha · 25 %
Azails 7,527 inhabitants 7,133 ha · 53 %
Sidi Djillali 6,697 inhabitants 4,856 ha · 6.6 %
Beni Semiel 4,704 inhabitants 4,212 ha · 19 %
Oued Lakhdar 5,262 inhabitants 2,732 ha · 20 %
Beni Ouarsous 12,110 inhabitants 1,171 ha · 6.9 %
Ouled Mimoun 26,389 inhabitants 570 ha · 6.3 %
Sebdou 39,800 inhabitants 398 ha · 1.6 %
Nedroma 32,498 inhabitants 296 ha · 3.5 %
Msirda Fouaga 5,693 inhabitants 281 ha · 3.1 %
Aïn Fezza 11,053 inhabitants 212 ha · 1.6 %
Ain Ghoraba 5,068 inhabitants 201 ha · 2.1 %

What burns in the region

Other natural land49 %
Mixed forest43 %
Broadleaved forest6.5 %
Agricultural areas1.3 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

3×Azails7,133 ha
3×Beni Ouarsous1,171 ha
2×Beni Semiel4,212 ha
2×Oued Lakhdar2,732 ha
2×Sebdou398 ha
2×Nedroma296 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	2	25,211	Azails 19,926 ha
2023	1	304	Aïn Fezza 304 ha
2020	3	780	Beni Ouarsous 369 ha
2019	1	119	Azails 119 ha
2018	1	282	Msirda Fouaga 282 ha
2017	2	2,408	Beni Semiel 2,231 ha
2016	3	936	Beni Ouarsous 805 ha

All fires in Tlemcen · 13

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).