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Wildfires in Médéa
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 1,540 km² of Médéa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 190 km², ranking 10th 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 465 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 19 km². The 2021–2025 average is 88% 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 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 July 2017, with detections in 71 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,540 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 843 | 55% |
| 2 years | 410 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 275 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 4.0 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 4.0 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.25, 2.75 and holds 70% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 465 | 777 |
| 2013 | 285 | 347 |
| 2014 | 294 | 496 |
| 2015 | 133 | 342 |
| 2016 | 214 | 424 |
| 2017 | 343 | 569 |
| 2018 | 98 | 292 |
| 2019 | 269 | 492 |
| 2020 | 392 | 683 |
| 2021 | 45 | 139 |
| 2022 | 25 | 119 |
| 2023 | 43 | 185 |
| 2024 | 19 | 192 |
| 2025 | 39 | 217 |
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.