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Wildfires in Skikda
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 2,240 km² of Skikda at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 312 km², ranking 4th 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 704 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 78 km². The 2021–2025 average is 65% 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 41% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 August 2020, with detections in 136 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,240 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,110 | 49% |
| 2 years | 612 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 488 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 14 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 19 | 0.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 6.75 and holds 74% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 646 | 2,291 |
| 2013 | 235 | 1,703 |
| 2014 | 550 | 2,073 |
| 2015 | 157 | 1,448 |
| 2016 | 489 | 1,797 |
| 2017 | 704 | 1,980 |
| 2018 | 113 | 1,242 |
| 2019 | 275 | 1,529 |
| 2020 | 472 | 2,001 |
| 2021 | 224 | 1,527 |
| 2022 | 184 | 1,369 |
| 2023 | 160 | 1,540 |
| 2024 | 78 | 1,085 |
| 2025 | 88 | 1,307 |
Other regions of Algeria
- Ouargla941 km² in an average year
- Béjaïa337 km² in an average year
- Illizi320 km² in an average year
- Jijel284 km² in an average year
- Tizi Ouzou272 km² in an average year
- Blida251 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
- Jijel44 km
- Constantine55 km
- Oum El Bouaghi55 km
- Guelma71 km
- Annaba89 km
- Souk Ahras105 km