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Wildfires in Albania
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 9,650 km² of Albania at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,070 km², ranking 117th of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2012, with 2,820 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 410 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 26 August 2012, with detections in 385 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,650 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,180 | 64% |
| 2 years | 2,320 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,080 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 51 | 0.5% |
| 11 years or more | 5.6 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.75, 20.25 and holds 14% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,820 | 6,853 |
| 2013 | 476 | 749 |
| 2014 | 410 | 631 |
| 2015 | 905 | 1,351 |
| 2016 | 535 | 786 |
| 2017 | 1,970 | 3,483 |
| 2018 | 465 | 773 |
| 2019 | 1,140 | 1,539 |
| 2020 | 1,060 | 1,541 |
| 2021 | 1,240 | 2,221 |
| 2022 | 964 | 1,278 |
| 2023 | 642 | 950 |
| 2024 | 1,010 | 1,698 |
| 2025 | 1,280 | 2,124 |
Nearby countries
- Russian Federation212,570 km² in an average year
- Ukraine35,560 km² in an average year
- Italy9,880 km² in an average year
- Romania7,650 km² in an average year
- Spain5,090 km² in an average year
- France3,350 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby countries
- North Macedonia136 km
- Kosovo138 km
- Montenegro166 km
- Bosnia and Herzegovina233 km
- Italy274 km
- Serbia336 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
