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Wildfires in Béchar
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 321 km² of Béchar at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 29 km², ranking 39th of 48 regions of Algeria.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2013, with 132 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 4.2 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
May, June and July together hold 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 May 2013, with detections in 104 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 321 km² with at least one detection, 7.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 282 | 88% |
| 2 years | 17 | 5.3% |
| 3 to 5 years | 21 | 6.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.1 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.25, -2.75 and holds 20% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 20 | 23 |
| 2013 | 132 | 133 |
| 2014 | 37 | 43 |
| 2015 | 6.4 | 15 |
| 2016 | 13 | 14 |
| 2017 | 22 | 23 |
| 2018 | 19 | 18 |
| 2019 | 21 | 20 |
| 2020 | 20 | 27 |
| 2021 | 17 | 21 |
| 2022 | 23 | 28 |
| 2023 | 55 | 72 |
| 2024 | 4.2 | 23 |
| 2025 | 11 | 27 |
Other regions of Algeria
- Ouargla941 km² in an average year
- Béjaïa337 km² in an average year
- Illizi320 km² in an average year
- Skikda312 km² in an average year
- Jijel284 km² in an average year
- Tizi Ouzou272 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.