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European wildfire report for 2024: Albania suffered the heaviest losses

2025-12-08 23:30:33Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
European wildfire report for 2024: Albania suffered the heaviest losses
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The 2024 Europe, Middle East and North Africa Fire Report shows that last year's fire season ended with a total of 383,317 hectares of burned area.

Data from 2024 shows that the traditional fire season, from early June to mid-September, continues to expand with massive and dangerous blazes. In total, 8,343 fires have been reported by the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM).

Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain were among the European Union countries that were most affected, with a total burned area of ​​334,940 hectares.

Of the countries that are not members of the union, but are part of the UCPM, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Turkey, and Ukraine were the ones that suffered the heaviest losses.

As for Albania, according to the European report, the 2024 fire season was the most extreme in the last 6 years.

49,189 hectares were recorded burned by 453 fires, mainly in July and August.

European wildfire report for 2024: Albania suffered the heaviest losses
Locations of fires in Albania, year 2024

The year 2024 also saw fires that caused major damage in the Balkans, both inside and outside the EU territory.

The European Forest Fire Information Service (EFFIS) says that fire seasons across the continent are lasting longer than usual, as heatwaves have become more frequent. These create ideal conditions for large, uncontrollable blazes to erupt.

What does the trend look like for 2025 so far?

From the data collected so far for the 2025 fire season, it appears that the trend is increasing.

Since January of this year, EFFIS has registered 7,200 fires in 37 countries that are part of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

Currently, data up to 25 November 2025 shows that over 1 million hectares have burned in the EU, leading to the need to reinforce firefighting forces. Thus, the number of firefighting aircraft and helicopters in the European Union's air fleet, rescEU, has doubled.


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