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Wildfires in Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër, Albania, has had 26 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 15,844 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 13° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 81 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 18° · 78 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 15° · 90 % · 55 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 16° · 90 % · 44 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Gjirokastër: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

15,844
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
26
fires
1,163
km²

How many times has Gjirokastër burned?

Gjirokastër has burned 26 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Gjirokastër fire, August 2025, with 143 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,844 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,592 hectares, 10.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 8× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
26
fires
8
years with fire
15,844
cumulative ha
11,592
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 Gjirokastër

  1. 143 ha Gjirokastër fire, August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 546 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 256 ha Sarandë fire, 6 August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 12,229 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 412 ha Sarandë fire, 24 July 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 9,856 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 158 ha Gjirokastër fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 108 ha Gjirokastër fire, 25 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 184 ha Gjirokastër fire, 14 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 184 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 104 ha Gjirokastër fire, 11 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,866 ha Gjirokastër fire, July 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,862 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,548 ha Delvinë fire, 19 July 2024 1.3% of the municipality · 1,772 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,366 ha Delvinë fire, 8 July 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 4,153 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 415 ha Delvinë fire, 7 July 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 516 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 110 ha Gjirokastër fire, August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,227 ha Gjirokastër fire, July 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,633 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 13 ha Sarandë fire, March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 119 ha Gjirokastër fire, 2 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,524 ha Gjirokastër fire, 2 August 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,521 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 156 ha Delvinë fire, September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 679 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 307 ha Gjirokastër fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 306 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 127 ha Gjirokastër fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 89 ha Delvinë fire, August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 966 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 125 ha Gjirokastër fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 211 ha Gjirokastër fire, February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 211 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 275 ha Gjirokastër fire, 27 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 274 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 114 ha Gjirokastër fire, 25 August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 3,767 ha Gjirokastër fire, 8 August 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 5,609 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 120 ha Gjirokastër fire, August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 120 ha in total · 2 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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