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Wildfires in Lezhë

Lezhë, Albania, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 4,149 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, 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. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 48 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 36 % · 54 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 52 % · 42 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 15° · 57 % · 41 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

4,149
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
10
fires
505
km²

How many times has Lezhë burned?

Lezhë has burned 10 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Lezhë fire, September 2026, with 590 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,149 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,914 hectares, 5.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
7
years with fire
4,149
cumulative ha
2,914
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 Lezhë

  1. 70 ha Lezhë fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 196 ha Lezhë fire, 30 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 590 ha Lezhë fire, September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 589 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 303 ha Lezhë fire, 28 July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 303 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,246 ha Lezhë fire, 24 July 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,051 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 46 ha Shkodër fire, 7 August 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 438 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2 ha Kurbin fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 640 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 329 ha Lezhë fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 406 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,132 ha Shkodër fire, 29 July 2020 2.2% of the municipality · 3,375 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 129 ha Lezhë fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 128 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 247 ha Lezhë fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 266 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 126 ha Lezhë fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 126 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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