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Shkodër fire, July 2024 Shkodër

Out · last measured on 28 Jul 2024

The fire started on 26 July 2024 in Shkodër, Albania, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 207 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 48th largest in Shkodër since 2016 (of 82 with a page). Number 45 in Albania in 2024, of 70.

Burnt area
207ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
26 Jul 2024 – 28 Jul 2024
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
26 Jul
2024
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 4 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jul28 Jul

The weather it burned in

36°high
36km/h · peak gust
22%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Shkodër where it started
    206 ha reached on 31 Jul
    0.1 %

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

  • Scrub and transitional woodland73 %
  • Agricultural areas15 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub11 %
  • Other natural land1.9 %

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)
26 Jul 33.1 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
27 Jul 35.7 °C 22 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
28 Jul 35.8 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
29 Jul after 38.5 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
30 Jul after 35.4 °C 17 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
31 Jul after 34.9 °C 19 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
1 Aug after 34.4 °C 24 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
2 Aug after 34.5 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
3 Aug after 32.4 °C 34 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Aug after 33.7 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
5 Aug after 33.8 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Aug after 34.1 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Aug after 34.9 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 19 Jul 2024
After · 4 Aug 2024

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 3 August 2024 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1021 µg/m³
Optical depth0.54
2425262728293031123456
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)

Detections table · 1Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Shkodër fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 26 July 2024 and 28 July 2024: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 207 hectares (2.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Shkodër (206 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, 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.