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Wildfires in Orientalالشرق

Oriental, Morocco: 10 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 provinces since 2016, burning 8,464 hectares inside the region. The largest was Berkane in July 2023, with 2,686 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
8,464ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
66,241 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 8
Largest fire
2,686ha
Berkane · July 2023
Inhabitants
9,695
873.0 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 21° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 20° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 22° · 23 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 26 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 19° · 39 % · 14 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 36 % · 21 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. Berkane 9,695 inhabitants 2,626 ha · 1.5 %
  2. Taourirt 1,693 ha · 0.2 %
  3. Driouch 1,526 ha · 0.5 %
  4. Nador 1,192 ha · 0.4 %
  5. Guercif 735 ha · 0.1 %
  6. Jerada 693 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas30 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland22 %
  • Coniferous forest18 %
  • Mixed forest12 %
  • Other natural land9.4 %
  • Broadleaved forest9.2 %

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
202322,825 Berkane 2,686 ha
20221735 Guercif 735 ha
20211102 Taourirt 102 ha
20201383 Jerada 383 ha
201911,386 Driouch 1,386 ha
201721,823 Jerada 1,478 ha
201621,209 Nador 847 ha

All fires in Oriental · 10

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).