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Wildfires in Oran
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 491 km² of Oran at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 73 km², ranking 24th 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 137 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 58 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% 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.
August, September and October together hold 27% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 July 2014, with detections in 33 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 491 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 365 | 74% |
| 2 years | 51 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 37 | 7.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 11 | 2.2% |
| 11 years or more | 26 | 5.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.75, -0.25 and holds 95% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 71 | 1,612 |
| 2013 | 67 | 2,017 |
| 2014 | 137 | 2,563 |
| 2015 | 76 | 2,256 |
| 2016 | 72 | 2,262 |
| 2017 | 69 | 1,761 |
| 2018 | 60 | 1,689 |
| 2019 | 78 | 2,009 |
| 2020 | 67 | 1,979 |
| 2021 | 58 | 1,597 |
| 2022 | 70 | 1,574 |
| 2023 | 78 | 1,993 |
| 2024 | 58 | 1,817 |
| 2025 | 58 | 1,894 |
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
- Mascara55 km
- Aïn Témouchent106 km
- Sidi Bel Abbès111 km
- Saïda120 km
- Tlemcen143 km
- Chlef145 km