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🇩🇿 Algeria: wildfires in October 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Algeria, October 2026: 45 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 01:28.

Busiest day: 28 October, with 24 ignitions detected. +50% compared with September 2026.

45
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
144
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 45 detection events in Algeria, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 144 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 1022026-10-02: 2042026-10-04: 1052026-10-05: 1062026-10-06: 1072026-10-07: 1092026-10-09: 4112026-10-11: 1152026-10-15: 2202026-10-20: 3212026-10-21: 2242026-10-24: 1282026-10-28: 24292026-10-29: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
El Menia20 Oct, 08:508144
Timokten1 Oct, 14:477132
Skikda5 Oct, 11:5021119
Tsabit24 Oct, 16:248111
In Zghmir21 Oct, 15:07890
Hassi Messaoud7 Oct, 23:072084
Barbacha15 Oct, 13:40854
Babor15 Oct, 13:081350
Timokten20 Oct, 10:17837
El Menia4 Oct, 12:041237

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Algeria, October 2026: 45 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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