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Wildfires in Pogradec

Pogradec, Albania, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 2,424 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.7% 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 11° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 67 % · 17 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 59 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 11° · 61 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 10° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 9° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 84 % · 18 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Pogradec: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,424
hectares burned
3.7 %
of its area
5
fires
655
km²

How many times has Pogradec burned?

Pogradec has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Pogradec fire, March 2026, with 118 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,424 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,349 hectares, 3.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
2,424
cumulative ha
2,349
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 Pogradec

  1. 118 ha Pogradec fire, March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 118 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,825 ha Kuçovë fire, August 2024 2.8% of the municipality · 2,869 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 202 ha Pogradec fire, April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 202 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 193 ha Pogradec fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 193 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 86 ha Pogradec fire, August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 152 ha in total · 5 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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