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Wildfires in El Oued
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 422 km² of El Oued at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 54 km², ranking 30th 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 2024, with 86 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 22 km². The 2021–2025 average is 101% higher 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 24 July 2017, with detections in 17 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 422 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 278 | 66% |
| 2 years | 67 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 61 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 14 | 3.4% |
| 11 years or more | 1.0 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.75, 6.75 and holds 65% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 40 | 44 |
| 2013 | 24 | 29 |
| 2014 | 22 | 24 |
| 2015 | 32 | 143 |
| 2016 | 60 | 527 |
| 2017 | 66 | 665 |
| 2018 | 44 | 674 |
| 2019 | 53 | 685 |
| 2020 | 57 | 703 |
| 2021 | 56 | 740 |
| 2022 | 77 | 1,141 |
| 2023 | 76 | 1,014 |
| 2024 | 86 | 1,179 |
| 2025 | 63 | 758 |
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
- Ouargla120 km
- Kebili, Tunisia194 km
- Biskra240 km
- Tataouine, Tunisia260 km
- Khenchela277 km
- Batna292 km