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Wildfires in Shkodër

Shkodër, Albania: 85 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 municipalities since 2016, burning 40,744 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pukë in August 2026, with 3,242 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 one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
40,744ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
3,442 km²
fires
85
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
3,242ha
Pukë · August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 13° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 11° · 43 % · 59 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 50 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 56 % · 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. Shkodër 16,812 ha · 11 %
  2. Pukë 14,178 ha · 14 %
  3. Malësi e Madhe 9,951 ha · 10 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land29 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland26 %
  • Sclerophyllous scrub16 %
  • Broadleaved forest13 %
  • Coniferous forest9.1 %
  • Mixed forest3.8 %
  • Agricultural areas2.8 %

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
202687,193 Pukë 3,242 ha
202572,570 Pukë 837 ha
202487,753 Lezhë 2,798 ha
2022174,225 Shkodër 674 ha
2021104,853 Pukë 2,493 ha
2020124,552 Shkodër 2,237 ha
201971,651 Pukë 572 ha
201812,100 Pukë 2,100 ha
2017144,942 Shkodër 1,120 ha
201621,101 Shkodër 864 ha

All fires in Shkodër · 86

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).