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Wildfires in Kavajë

Kavajë, Albania, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,082 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 48 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 57 % · 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

6,082
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
15
fires
422
km²

How many times has Kavajë burned?

Kavajë has burned 15 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tiranë fire, September 2026, with 753 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,082 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,641 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
15
fires
9
years with fire
6,082
cumulative ha
4,641
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 Kavajë

  1. 753 ha Tiranë fire, September 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 931 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 386 ha Kavajë fire, August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 386 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 172 ha Kavajë fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 307 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 982 ha Kavajë fire, August 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 981 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,222 ha Kavajë fire, July 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,249 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 475 ha Kavajë fire, August 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 475 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 90 ha Tiranë fire, August 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 222 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 150 ha Kavajë fire, July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 438 ha Kavajë fire, August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 437 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 263 ha Kavajë fire, 15 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 263 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 491 ha Kavajë fire, 5 September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 490 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 119 ha Kavajë fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 172 ha Kavajë fire, 27 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 115 ha Kavajë fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 255 ha Kavajë fire, August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 254 ha in total · 6 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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