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Wildfires in Kukës

Kukës, Albania, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 6,506 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.9% 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 28 Very low 7° · 73 % · 44 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 8° · 88 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 8° · 83 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 7° · 94 % · 37 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 87 % · 51 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 6° · 84 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 6° · 70 % · 31 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

6,506
hectares burned
6.9 %
of its area
10
fires
946
km²

How many times has Kukës burned?

Kukës has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Mirditë fire, 26 August 2024, with 462 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
6,506
cumulative ha
26 Aug 2024
most recent

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 Kukës

  1. 462 ha Mirditë fire, 26 August 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 87 ha Mirditë fire, 18 August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,112 ha Kukës fire, August 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 100 ha Kukës fire, November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 138 ha Kukës fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,821 ha Kukës fire, August 2021 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 4,419 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 275 ha Mirditë fire, May 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 839 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 292 ha Kukës fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 110 ha Kukës fire, October 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 108 ha Kukës fire, March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 3 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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