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Wildfires in Mascara
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 578 km² of Mascara at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 51 km², ranking 32nd 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 2014, with 160 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 17 km². The 2021–2025 average is 79% 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.
June, July and August together hold 30% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 June 2014, with detections in 38 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 578 km² with at least one detection, 2.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 522 | 90% |
| 2 years | 39 | 6.8% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11 | 1.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 5.0 | 0.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.25, -0.25 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 39 | 400 |
| 2013 | 91 | 450 |
| 2014 | 160 | 592 |
| 2015 | 124 | 607 |
| 2016 | 46 | 506 |
| 2017 | 38 | 465 |
| 2018 | 31 | 422 |
| 2019 | 50 | 363 |
| 2020 | 30 | 253 |
| 2021 | 21 | 279 |
| 2022 | 22 | 418 |
| 2023 | 17 | 458 |
| 2024 | 17 | 410 |
| 2025 | 19 | 453 |
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
- Sidi Bel Abbès55 km
- Oran55 km
- Saïda71 km
- Aïn Témouchent90 km
- Tlemcen106 km
- Tiaret136 km