Wildfires in El Kef
El Kef, Tunisia: 26 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 11 delegations since 2016, burning 23,085 hectares inside the region. The largest was ساقية سيدي يوسف in July 2026, with 13,475 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
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
- 23,085ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.5%
- 5,115 km²
- fires
- 26
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 13,475ha
- ساقية سيدي يوسف · July 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 7 Very low 21° · 42 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 8 Low 21° · 41 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 9 Moderate 24° · 33 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 10 Moderate 24° · 37 % · 32 km/h
- Wed 11 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 12 High 22° · 37 % · 62 km/h
- Fri 13 High 22° · 31 % · 37 km/h
- Sat 14 High 22° · 32 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- ساقية سيدي يوسف 16,642 ha · 23 %
- نبر 3,634 ha · 5.0 %
- الكاف الشرقية 1,433 ha · 3.6 %
- الكاف الغربية 693 ha · 3.2 %
- قلعة سنان 682 ha · 1.3 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest61 %
- Agricultural areas22 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland12 %
- Other land cover2.1 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub1.6 %
- Other natural land0.9 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 11×ساقية سيدي يوسف16,642 ha
- 11×نبر3,634 ha
- 3×الكاف الغربية693 ha
- 2×الكاف الشرقية1,433 ha
- 2×قلعة سنان682 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 13,475 haساقية سيدي يوسفJuly 2026 · 10 days
- 2,334 haساقية سيدي يوسفJuly 2021 · 5 days
- 1,210 haالكاف الشرقيةAugust 2016 · 4 days
- 594 haنبرJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 571 haالكاف الغربيةJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 531 haنبر26 July 2016 · 10 days
- 426 haقلعة سنان12 July 2026 · 1 day
- 418 haساقية سيدي يوسفAugust 2020 · 7 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 15,456 | ساقية سيدي يوسف 13,475 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 122 | ساقية سيدي يوسف 122 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 2,672 | ساقية سيدي يوسف 2,334 ha |
| 2020 | 4 | 1,083 | ساقية سيدي يوسف 418 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 347 | نبر 189 ha |
| 2016 | 9 | 3,405 | الكاف الشرقية 1,210 ha |
All fires in El Kef · 26
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 13 haواد مليزAugust 2026 · 2 days
- 594 haنبرJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 13,475 haساقية سيدي يوسفJuly 2026 · 10 days
- 571 haالكاف الغربيةJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 426 haقلعة سنان12 July 2026 · 1 day
- 255 haقلعة سنان8 July 2026 · 2 days
- 121 haالكاف الغربيةJune 2026 · 2 days
- 122 haساقية سيدي يوسفJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 142 haنبرSeptember 2021 · 3 days
- 2,334 haساقية سيدي يوسفJuly 2021 · 5 days
- 196 haنبرJuly 2021 · 1 day
- 25 haغار الدماءAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 418 haساقية سيدي يوسفAugust 2020 · 7 days
- 418 haنبرAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 223 haالكاف الشرقيةAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 189 haنبرAugust 2017 · 2 days
- 158 haساقية سيدي يوسفJuly 2017 · 5 days
- 106 haساقية سيدي يوسف22 August 2016 · 8 days
- 356 haساقية سيدي يوسف21 August 2016 · 10 days
- 311 haنبر19 August 2016 · 2 days
- 360 haنبر16 August 2016 · 3 days
- 1,210 haالكاف الشرقيةAugust 2016 · 4 days
- 161 haساقية سيدي يوسف1 August 2016 · 4 days
- 531 haنبر26 July 2016 · 10 days
- 203 haغار الدماءJuly 2016 · 6 days
- 167 haنبر3 July 2016 · 1 day
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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