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Wildfires in Kukës

Kukës, Albania: 26 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 municipalities since 2016, burning 10,858 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kukës in August 2021, with 3,821 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
10,858ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.4%
2,466 km²
fires
26
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
3,821ha
Kukës · August 2021
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 14° · 61 % · 38 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 9° · 78 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 70 % · 54 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 9° · 86 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 54 % · 32 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. Kukës 6,506 ha · 6.9 %
  2. Tropojë 3,913 ha · 3.6 %
  3. Has 440 ha · 1.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland25 %
  • Broadleaved forest24 %
  • Other natural land23 %
  • Mixed forest12 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub11 %
  • Coniferous forest2.8 %
  • Agricultural areas2.4 %

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
20253483 Tropojë 187 ha
202463,056 Kukës 1,112 ha
20222564 Tropojë 554 ha
202144,179 Kukës 3,821 ha
20204861 Kukës 318 ha
201941,224 Tropojë 889 ha
20182371 Tropojë 241 ha
20171121 Tropojë 121 ha

All fires in Kukës · 26

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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