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Wildfires in Elbasan

Elbasan, Albania: 15 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,296 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gramsh in 12 August 2025, with 3,138 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
6,296ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.9%
3,365 km²
fires
15
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
3,138ha
Gramsh · 12 August 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 67 % · 50 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 12° · 58 % · 34 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Gramsh 4,574 ha · 6.2 %
  2. Peqin 1,043 ha · 5.5 %
  3. Elbasan 420 ha · 0.3 %
  4. Librazhd 285 ha · 0.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas29 %
  • Coniferous forest20 %
  • Mixed forest16 %
  • Other natural land14 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland8.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.3 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub6.3 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20263810 Peqin 782 ha
202564,528 Gramsh 3,138 ha
2024178 Skrapar 78 ha
20221112 Gramsh 112 ha
20202253 Peqin 136 ha
20174541 Gramsh 232 ha

All fires in Elbasan · 17

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikipedia (Public Domain). 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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