Tropojë fire, July 2025 Tropojë
The fire started on 27 July 2025 in Tropojë, Albania, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 178 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 10th largest in Kukës since 2016 (of 22 with a page). Number 48 in Albania in 2025, of 71.
The power measured by the satellite is low (13.9 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 178ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 27 Jul 2025 – 28 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 14 MW
- Danger at start
- 40
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 17MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.1 mm on 29 Jul.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Tropojë where it started178 ha reached on 27 Jul0.2 %
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
- Broadleaved forest68 %
- Other natural land20 %
- Agricultural areas7.8 %
- Sclerophyllous scrub3.9 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul | 28.5 °C | 30 % | 57 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very high 40 |
| 28 Jul | 26.2 °C | 39 % | 34 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 22 |
| 29 Jul after | 23.6 °C | 49 % | 35 km/h | 11.1 mm | Very low 2 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 30 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,911 haMunicipality of GjakovaAugust 2019 · 6 days · 11 km away
- 2,069 haMunicipality of GjakovaJuly 2024 · 5 days · 12 km away
- 4,419 haKukësAugust 2021 · 6 days · 27 km away
- 2,099 haPukëSeptember 2018 · 6 days · 28 km away
- 4,513 haPukëAugust 2026 · 1 day · 39 km away
- 1,756 haPukë6 September 2026 · 6 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Tropojë fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 27 July 2025 and 28 July 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 178 hectares (1.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Tropojë (178 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.5 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 57 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very 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.