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Wildfires in Souss-Massaسوس-ماسة

Souss-Massa, Morocco: 8 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 provinces since 2016, burning 2,291 hectares inside the region. The largest was Taroudant in 19 July 2023, with 746 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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
2,291ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.0%
53,921 km²
fires
8
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 6
Largest fire
746ha
Taroudant · 19 July 2023
Inhabitants
3,020,431
0.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 31 High 26° · 21 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 1 High 25° · 23 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 22° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 44 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 20° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Low 20° · 53 % · 32 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Taroudant 858,162 inhabitants 2,186 ha · 0.1 %
  2. Chtouka-Ait Baha 493,623 inhabitants 105 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest49 %
  • Coniferous forest36 %
  • Agricultural areas6.8 %
  • Mixed forest5.6 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland2.8 %

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
20263722 Taroudant 425 ha
202331,187 Taroudant 746 ha
20221277 Taroudant 277 ha
20211105 Chtouka-Ait Baha 105 ha

All fires in Souss-Massa · 8

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).

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