Wildfire near Baz
Started on Sep 6, 2026.
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Active fires nearby2 · 100 km
Spanning two days of active burning near Baz, Albania, a wildfire has scorched 300 hectares, equivalent to approximately 741 acres, maintaining an average daily growth of roughly 150 hectares per day since it began on September 6, 2026.
Operating within Albania's typical fire season, which generally spans the warm and dry months from roughly May to October, the incident currently registers a low satellite heat intensity, according to peak fire radiative power measurements.
In the surrounding area, satellite monitoring over the last 48 hours has detected 27 NASA FIRMS heat signatures clustered nearby, illustrating the current spread of the fire front as firefighting efforts continue.
In context
This wildfire burned in Albania for 2 days. In total it burned about 300 ha (741 acres) — around 3.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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