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Wildfires in Lezhë

Lezhë, Albania: 39 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 municipalities since 2016, burning 17,704 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mirditë in 16 August 2017, with 2,930 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.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
17,704ha
Since 2016
Of the region
11%
1,542 km²
fires
39
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
2,930ha
Mirditë · 16 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. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 50 % · 42 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 16° · 45 % · 27 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. Mirditë 12,914 ha · 15 %
  2. Lezhë 4,415 ha · 8.7 %
  3. Kurbin 668 ha · 2.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Scrub and transitional woodland25 %
  • Other natural land24 %
  • Broadleaved forest19 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub18 %
  • Coniferous forest7.0 %
  • Mixed forest6.6 %
  • Agricultural areas1.0 %

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
202672,600 Pukë 1,272 ha
20252754 Mirditë 743 ha
202474,320 Mirditë 1,996 ha
202261,824 Kurbin 641 ha
202151,816 Mirditë 653 ha
202052,060 Shkodër 1,132 ha
20192209 Lezhë 129 ha
201774,313 Mirditë 2,930 ha
20161103 Mirditë 103 ha

All fires in Lezhë · 42

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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