Wildfire near Boukhelifa
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Burning near Boukhelifa, Algeria, an active wildfire has scorched 380 hectares (939 acres) since it began on July 24, 2026. Satellites are picking up a low heat intensity from the front, reflecting the current state of the burn.
In the surrounding area, monitoring systems have detected 15 heat signatures over the last 48 hours, illustrating the local extent of the active fire.
In context
This wildfire burned in Algeria for 4 days. In total it burned about 380 ha (939 acres) — around 3.8 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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