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Delvinë fire, August 2026 Delvinë

Out · last measured on 3 Aug 2026

The fire started on 3 August 2026 in Delvinë, Albania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 507 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 35th largest in Vlorë since 2016 (of 160 with a page). Number 11 in Albania in 2026, of 43.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
507ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
3 Aug 2026 – 3 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
3 Aug
2026
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
30km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone 25 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

69% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 53 ha in 2016, 49 ha in 2017, 102 ha in 2020, 178 ha in 2024, 29 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 352 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Delvinë where it started
    507 ha
    1.4 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land56 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub20 %
  • Agricultural areas12 %
  • Broadleaved forest7.5 %
  • Artificial surfaces2.8 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.2 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
3 Aug 32.5 °C 35 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
4 Aug after 31.5 °C 45 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Aug after 33.9 °C 30 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
6 Aug after 33.5 °C 30 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Aug after 34.3 °C 32 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
8 Aug after 34.5 °C 38 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
9 Aug after 36.0 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Aug after 34.2 °C 38 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
11 Aug after 34.5 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
12 Aug after 34.5 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
13 Aug after 35.5 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 27 Jul 2026
After · 10 Aug 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 5 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1024 µg/m³
Optical depth0.48
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Delvinë fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 3 August 2026 and 3 August 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 507 hectares (5.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Delvinë (507 ha, 1.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.5 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Albania (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 128 · 112

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.