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Wildfires in Mat

Mat, Albania, has had 18 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,591 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% 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. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 32 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 46 % · 37 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

6,591
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
18
fires
907
km²

How many times has Mat burned?

Mat has burned 18 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mat fire, August 2026, with 2,808 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,591 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,696 hectares, 6.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 2× 26
18
fires
6
years with fire
6,591
cumulative ha
5,696
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 Mat

  1. 2,808 ha Mat fire, August 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 154 ha Bulqizë fire, 27 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 45 ha Bulqizë fire, 12 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 189 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 226 ha Bulqizë fire, 26 July 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 793 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 119 ha Tiranë fire, 25 July 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 18 ha Mirditë fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 761 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 956 ha Dibër fire, 7 July 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 3,603 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 174 ha Mirditë fire, 6 August 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 477 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 0 ha Kurbin fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 640 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 320 ha Mat fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 320 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 155 ha Mat fire, March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 155 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 108 ha Mat fire, 15 September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 169 ha Mat fire, 15 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 7 ha Mirditë fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 95 ha Mirditë fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 174 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1 ha Bulqizë fire, 18 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 1,087 ha Mat fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 148 ha Mat fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 148 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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