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Wildfires in Kosovo in 2020

18 fires larger than 100 hectares in Kosovo in 2020, with 4,616 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

The year in a few sentences

  1. The largest fire was the Municipality of Rahovec fire, which started on 19 March 2020 and burned 513 hectares: 11% of the area of the year's 18 fires with a page.

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Official burned area
— ha
Copernicus EFFIS
Fires with a page
18
4,616 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
513 ha
Municipality of Rahovec · 19 Mar
Highest FWI
—
Not yet calculated with the current method

Map of the year

Copernicus EFFIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

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Markdown version

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- The largest fire was the Municipality of Rahovec fire, which started on 19 March 2020 and burned 513 hectares: 11% of the area of the year's 18 fires with a page.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Kosovo in 2020”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/kosovo/2020 (accessed 7 November 2026). Sources: WorldFires.

Fires of 2020, largest first · 18

Burned area in 2020 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 7,320 ha burned in 2020: rank 6 of 7 complete years (1 = the most burned). The average of those years is 15,317 ha.

The area the Sentinel-3 satellite sees burned each month, separate from the fire pages. It is the same source and the same method every year, so years can be compared with each other. It counts everything that burns, including crop and pasture burning, which is why it does not match the fire pages or the official statistics.

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Where most burned in 2020

  1. Municipality of Mitrovica 1,163 ha
  2. Municipality of Lipjan 922 ha
  3. Municipality of Gracanica 824 ha
  4. Municipality of Vushtrri 804 ha
  5. Municipality of Podujeva 522 ha
  6. Municipality of Skenderaj 443 ha
  7. Municipality of Fushë Kosovë 420 ha
  8. Municipality of Zveçan 394 ha
  9. Municipality of Kaçanik 268 ha
  10. Municipality of Suhareka 203 ha

The whole series since 2018

Source: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, “Burnt Area 2018-present (raster 300 m), global, monthly – version 4”, monthly Sentinel-3 product, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34. Generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information; worldfires.org adds up, by country and region, the true area of the 300 m cells where a burn was detected. Latest month published: May 2026. Product page · Methodology

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus EFFIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated