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Wildfires in Montenegro

506 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2016, adding up to 244,342 hectares burned across 23 municipalities.

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 official record

2006–2026

Yearly average 2016–202523,209 ha

Worst year2017 51,531 ha

With a page here506 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	136	43,351	EFFIS
2025	133	27,658	EFFIS
2024	133	23,054	EFFIS
2023	7	454	EFFIS
2022	130	24,579	EFFIS
2021	112	42,187	EFFIS
2020	249	39,498	EFFIS
2019	65	10,603	EFFIS
2018	20	4,331	EFFIS
2017	121	51,531	EFFIS
2016	24	8,195	EFFIS
2015	44	13,534	EFFIS
2014	0	—	EFFIS
2013	8	1,623	EFFIS
2012	88	36,795	EFFIS
2011	44	16,180	EFFIS
2010	14	2,088	EFFIS
2009	1	103	EFFIS
2008	22	5,772	EFFIS
2007	30	18,820	EFFIS
2006	0	—	EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	440		1k	3k	365		1k	28k	5k	1k			40,297	Nikšić Municipality 14,076 ha
2025	117	519	4k			866	8k	11k				177	24,096	Podgorica Municipality 4,057 ha
2024	651	2k	2k	2k			7k	6k	122				18,825	Budva Municipality 3,085 ha
2023							127						127	Podgorica Municipality 127 ha
2022	808		12k	329			5k	3k	117				20,835	Nikšić Municipality 1,557 ha
2021		3k	2k	333	221	113	2k	32k					39,186	Cetinje Municipality 7,850 ha
2020	1k	1k	4k	15k	639	102	4k	3k	2k		804		31,477	Danilovgrad Municipality 1,529 ha
2019		285	7k	302				240		821			8,814	Nikšić Municipality 1,135 ha
2018								2k	2k				3,695	Podgorica Municipality 1,212 ha
2017		393	2k	231		281	21k	25k	528				49,254	Podgorica Municipality 6,019 ha
2016				952				565	339			6k	7,736	Plužine Municipality 2,226 ha