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Wildfires in El Tarf
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 1,460 km² of El Tarf at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 199 km², ranking 9th 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 2017, with 605 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 28 km². The 2021–2025 average is 53% 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.
July, August and September together hold 91% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 July 2017, with detections in 186 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,460 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 700 | 48% |
| 2 years | 421 | 29% |
| 3 to 5 years | 321 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 17 | 1.2% |
| 11 years or more | 1.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 8.25 and holds 62% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 367 | 519 |
| 2013 | 129 | 154 |
| 2014 | 261 | 333 |
| 2015 | 90 | 121 |
| 2016 | 290 | 367 |
| 2017 | 605 | 892 |
| 2018 | 28 | 37 |
| 2019 | 112 | 134 |
| 2020 | 369 | 462 |
| 2021 | 183 | 226 |
| 2022 | 200 | 219 |
| 2023 | 74 | 79 |
| 2024 | 33 | 33 |
| 2025 | 47 | 47 |
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
- Jendouba, Tunisia44 km
- Annaba44 km
- Souk Ahras71 km
- Beja, Tunisia89 km
- Guelma105 km
- Le Kef, Tunisia119 km