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Wildfires in Bulqizë

Bulqizë, Albania, has had 32 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 8,248 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 10° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 59 % · 53 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 9° · 78 % · 42 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 65 % · 25 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,248
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
32
fires
724
km²

How many times has Bulqizë burned?

Bulqizë has burned 32 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bulqizë fire, 27 August 2026, with 698 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,248 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,606 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 15× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 2× 26
32
fires
6
years with fire
8,248
cumulative ha
7,606
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Albania →

Fires that entered Bulqizë

  1. 698 ha Bulqizë fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 100 ha Bulqizë fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 100 ha Bulqizë fire, 12 August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 144 ha Bulqizë fire, 12 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 567 ha Bulqizë fire, 26 July 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 793 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 252 ha Bulqizë fire, 15 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 252 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 258 ha Bulqizë fire, 6 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 257 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 136 ha Bulqizë fire, 24 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 136 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 357 ha Bulqizë fire, 15 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 356 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 166 ha Bulqizë fire, 14 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 166 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 454 ha Bulqizë fire, 3 August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 453 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 118 ha Librazhd fire, April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 118 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 40 ha Dibër fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 180 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 112 ha Bulqizë fire, April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 149 ha Bulqizë fire, March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 149 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 58 ha Dibër fire, March 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 149 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 125 ha Bulqizë fire, July 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 124 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 89 ha Dibër fire, 1 September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 116 ha Bulqizë fire, 26 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 116 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 57 ha Bulqizë fire, 26 August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 695 ha Bulqizë fire, 24 August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 695 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 40 ha Tiranë fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 171 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 138 ha Bulqizë fire, 18 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 200 ha Bulqizë fire, 17 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 138 ha Bulqizë fire, 12 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 1,324 ha Bulqizë fire, 4 August 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,321 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 138 ha Bulqizë fire, 4 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 938 ha Bulqizë fire, 1 August 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 937 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 104 ha Bulqizë fire, 1 August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 103 ha Bulqizë fire, 21 July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 189 ha Bulqizë fire, 12 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 188 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 148 ha Bulqizë fire, 12 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 148 ha in total · 7 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Albania districts blank 2.svg (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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