Wildfires in Zaghouan
Zaghouan, Tunisia: 10 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 6 delegations since 2016, burning 7,347 hectares inside the region. The largest was الفحص in 11 August 2021, with 2,182 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).
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
- 7,347ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.6%
- 2,845 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 2,182ha
- الفحص · 11 August 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 Moderate 22° · 37 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 21° · 53 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 6 Moderate 22° · 55 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 7 Moderate 22° · 47 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 8 Low 21° · 60 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 9 Moderate 23° · 45 % · 45 km/h
- Tue 10 Moderate 25° · 40 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 11 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- الفحص 5,104 ha · 5.4 %
- زغوان 1,580 ha · 3.8 %
- الناظور 651 ha · 1.8 %
- بئر مشارقة 12 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest57 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland21 %
- Agricultural areas13 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub5.4 %
- Other natural land1.9 %
- Mixed forest1.8 %
- Broadleaved forest0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 2,182 haالفحص11 August 2021 · 6 days
- 1,041 haبرقوJuly 2025 · 3 days
- 1,029 haزغوانJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 933 haالفحص15 August 2021 · 5 days
- 834 haبرقوAugust 2017 · 3 days
- 552 haزغوانJuly 2022 · 3 days
- 329 haالناظورJuly 2021 · 4 days
- 303 haالفحصJuly 2024 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Zaghouan · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,029 haزغوانJuly 2026 · 3 days
- 1,041 haبرقوJuly 2025 · 3 days
- 303 haالفحصJuly 2024 · 2 days
- 552 haزغوانJuly 2022 · 3 days
- 133 haالفحصJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 12 haمرناقJune 2022 · 5 days
- 933 haالفحص15 August 2021 · 5 days
- 2,182 haالفحص11 August 2021 · 6 days
- 329 haالناظورJuly 2021 · 4 days
- 834 haبرقوAugust 2017 · 3 days
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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