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Sarandë fire, 25 September 2025 Sarandë, Delvinë

Out · last measured on 25 Sept 2025

The fire started on 25 September 2025 in Sarandë, Albania, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 153 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 108th largest in Vlorë since 2016 (of 160 with a page). Number 53 in Albania in 2025, of 71.

Compare with…

Suggestions: Sarandë · 2016Sarandë · 2019Sarandë · 2022Sarandë · 2020

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
153ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
25 Sept 2025 – 25 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
25 Sept
2025
Danger at start
8
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

25°high
24km/h · peak gust
71%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.0 mm on 28 Sept.

This area had burned before

90% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 92 ha in 2016, 115 ha in 2019, 71 ha in 2020, 83 ha in 2022, 46 ha in 2023, 9 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 138 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Sarandë where it started
    152 ha
    0.2 %
  2. Delvinë
    1 ha
    0.0 %

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

What burned

  • Other natural land76 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub20 %
  • Agricultural areas3.9 %

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)
25 Sept 25.4 °C 71 % 24 km/h 0.2 mm Low 8
26 Sept after 25.3 °C 63 % 22 km/h 0.7 mm Low 7
27 Sept after 24.5 °C 61 % 26 km/h 0.4 mm Low 8
28 Sept after 21.8 °C 58 % 23 km/h 8.0 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Sept 2025
After · 2 Oct 2025

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 23 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1011 µg/m³
Optical depth0.45
232425262728
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Sarandë fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 25 September 2025 and 25 September 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 153 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Sarandë (152 ha, 0.2 %); Delvinë (1 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 25.4 °C, humidity dropped to 71 % and gusts hit 24 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, class Low.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.