Wildfire near El Khroub
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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).
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature across the landscape near El Khroub, Algeria, where an active wildfire has already charred 100 ha (247 acres) since it began on 2026-07-23.
The scale of the ongoing incident is underscored by 44 NASA FIRMS heat detections recorded over the past 48 hours, illustrating the broad spread of the fire front in the area.
In context
This wildfire burned in Algeria for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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