Wildfires in Ben Arous
Ben Arous, Tunisia: 3 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 12 delegations since 2016, burning 1,006 hectares inside the region. The largest was مرناق in July 2022, with 748 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).
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
- 1,006ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.5%
- 664 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 748ha
- مرناق · July 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Low 23° · 59 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 58 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 21° · 60 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 20° · 59 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 19° · 43 % · 51 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 20° · 53 % · 40 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 21° · 47 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 22° · 51 % · 32 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- مرناق 666 ha · 1.7 %
- حمام الشط 221 ha · 8.4 %
- حمام الأنف 119 ha · 10 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest62 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub14 %
- Other natural land13 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland7.2 %
- Agricultural areas2.6 %
- Broadleaved forest0.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×مرناق666 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 748 haمرناقJuly 2022 · 4 days
- 205 haمرناقJune 2022 · 5 days of 216 ha in total
- 54 haزغوانJuly 2022 · 3 days of 692 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 1,006 | مرناق 748 ha |
All fires in Ben Arous · 3
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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