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Wildfires in Kasserine

Kasserine, Tunisia: 36 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 13 delegations since 2016, burning 26,040 hectares inside the region. The largest was القصرين الجنوبية in 21 June 2021, with 4,440 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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
26,040ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.2%
8,227 km²
fires
36
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 13
Largest fire
4,440ha
القصرين الجنوبية · 21 June 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 19° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 20° · 42 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 20° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Moderate 21° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Moderate 20° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 40 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 23° · 31 % · 45 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. القصرين الجنوبية 8,634 ha · 9.9 %
  2. سبيطلة 6,864 ha · 6.1 %
  3. فريانة 3,900 ha · 3.9 %
  4. سبيبة 2,497 ha · 5.6 %
  5. فوسانة 2,156 ha · 2.4 %
  6. حيدرة 589 ha · 1.2 %
  7. تالة 428 ha · 0.6 %
  8. القصرين الشمالية 387 ha · 4.0 %
  9. حاسي الفريد 300 ha · 0.3 %
  10. العيون 284 ha · 0.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest80 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland10 %
  • Mixed forest6.2 %
  • Agricultural areas2.3 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub0.8 %

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
20261105 سبيطلة 105 ha
20251177 سبيطلة 177 ha
20211513,476 القصرين الجنوبية 4,440 ha
202054,779 القصرين الجنوبية 1,787 ha
201931,316 القصرين الشمالية 1,075 ha
2017116,187 سبيطلة 925 ha

All fires in Kasserine · 36

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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