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Wildfires in Cantal
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 363 km² of Cantal at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 35 km², ranking 17th of 101 regions of France.
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 2019, with 74 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 12 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.
February, March and April together hold 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 February 2019, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 363 km² with at least one detection, 8.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 278 | 77% |
| 2 years | 53 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 29 | 8.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.6 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.25, 2.75 and holds 46% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 34 | 40 |
| 2013 | 19 | 25 |
| 2014 | 39 | 47 |
| 2015 | 47 | 55 |
| 2016 | 31 | 38 |
| 2017 | 50 | 59 |
| 2018 | 20 | 24 |
| 2019 | 74 | 88 |
| 2020 | 12 | 14 |
| 2021 | 36 | 43 |
| 2022 | 33 | 40 |
| 2023 | 22 | 25 |
| 2024 | 37 | 44 |
| 2025 | 41 | 48 |
Other regions of France
- French Guiana800 km² in an average year
- Pyrenees-Atlantics399 km² in an average year
- Bouches-du-Rhône149 km² in an average year
- Haute-Corse92 km² in an average year
- Gard78 km² in an average year
- Hérault72 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.