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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 27,930 km² of France at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,350 km², ranking 87th of 200 countries.

3,350 km²detected in an average year
2019busiest year, 4,460 km²
2024quietest year, 2,320 km²
Octoberpeak month, 13% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 3,960 km2'122013: 2,570 km2'132014: 3,370 km2'142015: 3,880 km2'152016: 3,630 km2'162017: 4,100 km2'172018: 2,690 km2'182019: 4,460 km2'192020: 2,910 km2'202021: 2,720 km2'212022: 3,660 km2'222023: 3,470 km2'232024: 2,320 km2'242025: 3,170 km2'254,460 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2019, with 4,460 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 2,320 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 4.1%JFebruary: 7.8%FMarch: 9.0%MApril: 8.2%AMay: 6.6%MJune: 8.0%JJuly: 11%JAugust: 11%ASeptember: 12%SOctober: 13%ONovember: 5.9%NDecember: 3.8%D13%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

August, September and October together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 February 2019, with detections in 275 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 27,930 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year20,77074%
2 years3,24012%
3 to 5 years2,77010%
6 to 10 years9643.5%
11 years or more1850.7%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, 4.75 and holds 16% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20123,9609,575
20132,5707,749
20143,3709,139
20153,88010,794
20163,6309,417
20174,10010,489
20182,6909,056
20194,46011,014
20202,9107,805
20212,7208,008
20223,6609,714
20233,4708,286
20242,3205,828
20253,1707,442

Nearby countries

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

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.