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Wildfires in Ghardaïa
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 519 km² of Ghardaïa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 67 km², ranking 26th 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 2025, with 118 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 45 km². The 2021–2025 average is 75% 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.
June, July and August together hold 28% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 July 2021, with detections in 32 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 519 km² with at least one detection, 9.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 392 | 76% |
| 2 years | 78 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 25 | 4.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6.2 | 1.2% |
| 11 years or more | 18 | 3.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.75, 3.25 and holds 49% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 55 | 1,325 |
| 2013 | 56 | 1,044 |
| 2014 | 55 | 1,106 |
| 2015 | 45 | 1,041 |
| 2016 | 47 | 1,177 |
| 2017 | 55 | 1,355 |
| 2018 | 45 | 1,310 |
| 2019 | 64 | 1,390 |
| 2020 | 61 | 1,606 |
| 2021 | 88 | 1,482 |
| 2022 | 62 | 1,507 |
| 2023 | 113 | 1,877 |
| 2024 | 68 | 1,503 |
| 2025 | 118 | 1,897 |
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.