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Wildfires in Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër, Albania: 47 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 municipalities since 2016, burning 22,376 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gjirokastër in 8 August 2017, with 3,767 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.

hectares burned
22,376ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.5%
2,978 km²
fires
47
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
3,767ha
Gjirokastër · 8 August 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 18° · 72 % · 54 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 92 % · 55 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 77 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 16° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 17° · 64 % · 53 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 15° · 77 % · 46 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 14° · 86 % · 49 km/h

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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. Gjirokastër 15,844 ha · 14 %
  2. Tepelenë 6,207 ha · 7.5 %
  3. Përmet 324 ha · 0.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land53 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland18 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub14 %
  • Agricultural areas8.4 %
  • Broadleaved forest6.4 %
  • Coniferous forest0.7 %

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
20262324 Përmet 165 ha
202582,710 Tepelenë 1,296 ha
2024149,873 Delvinë 2,366 ha
20231355 Tepelenë 355 ha
202231,349 Gjirokastër 1,227 ha
202151,987 Gjirokastër 1,524 ha
20204709 Gjirokastër 307 ha
20194551 Gjirokastër 211 ha
201754,397 Gjirokastër 3,767 ha
20161120 Gjirokastër 120 ha

All fires in Gjirokastër · 47

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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