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Wildfires in Mirditë

Mirditë, Albania, has had 30 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 12,914 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 14° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 58 % · 42 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 67 % · 43 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 69 % · 33 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 48 % · 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

12,914
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
30
fires
860
km²

How many times has Mirditë burned?

Mirditë has burned 30 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mirditë fire, 21 August 2026, with 117 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,914 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,990 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
30
fires
9
years with fire
12,914
cumulative ha
11,990
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 Mirditë

  1. 117 ha Mirditë fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 117 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,272 ha Pukë fire, August 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 4,513 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 326 ha Mirditë fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 327 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 743 ha Mirditë fire, July 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 761 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 11 ha Dibër fire, 7 July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,603 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 104 ha Mirditë fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,996 ha Mirditë fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 136 ha Mirditë fire, 18 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 307 ha Mirditë fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 307 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 227 ha Mirditë fire, February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 455 ha Mirditë fire, 7 August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 454 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 303 ha Mirditë fire, 6 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 477 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 240 ha Mirditë fire, July 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 240 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 138 ha Mirditë fire, March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 138 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 4 ha Pukë fire, 12 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,498 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 78 ha Lezhë fire, August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 406 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 653 ha Mirditë fire, August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 864 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 605 ha Kukës fire, August 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 4,419 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 148 ha Mirditë fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 147 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 126 ha Mirditë fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 565 ha Mirditë fire, May 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 839 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 100 ha Mirditë fire, April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 136 ha Pukë fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 239 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 80 ha Mirditë fire, March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 174 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 70 ha Pukë fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 157 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1 ha Dibër fire, 24 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 382 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 2,930 ha Mirditë fire, 16 August 2017 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,936 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 646 ha Mirditë fire, 5 August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 645 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 293 ha Mirditë fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 293 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 103 ha Mirditë fire, August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 103 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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