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Wildfires in Elbasan

Elbasan, Albania, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 420 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 41 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 40 % · 16 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 67 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 17° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 49 % · 23 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

420
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
5
fires
1,263
km²

How many times has Elbasan burned?

Elbasan has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Peqin fire, October 2026, with 51 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 420 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 402 hectares, 0.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
420
cumulative ha
402
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 Elbasan

  1. 0 ha Lushnjë fire, 14 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 51 ha Peqin fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 786 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 103 ha Elbasan fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 29 ha Librazhd fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 65 ha Librazhd fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 173 ha Elbasan fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 1 day

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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