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Wildfires in Biskra
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 573 km² of Biskra at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 60 km², ranking 28th 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 2012, with 140 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 25 km². The 2021–2025 average is 13% 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.
August, September and October together hold 29% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 August 2012, with detections in 23 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 573 km² with at least one detection, 9.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 458 | 80% |
| 2 years | 62 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 34 | 5.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 19 | 3.4% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 34.75, 5.75 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 140 | 177 |
| 2013 | 61 | 69 |
| 2014 | 25 | 26 |
| 2015 | 25 | 28 |
| 2016 | 56 | 129 |
| 2017 | 54 | 247 |
| 2018 | 30 | 358 |
| 2019 | 110 | 559 |
| 2020 | 74 | 514 |
| 2021 | 46 | 581 |
| 2022 | 50 | 578 |
| 2023 | 61 | 618 |
| 2024 | 50 | 554 |
| 2025 | 62 | 599 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Batna55 km
- Khenchela106 km
- Sétif172 km
- M'Sila175 km
- Constantine189 km
- Oum El Bouaghi189 km