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Wildfires in Charente-Maritime

Metropolitan department of France

Wildfires in Charente-Maritime

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 224 km² of Charente-Maritime at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 19 km², ranking 43rd of 101 regions of France.

19 km²detected in an average year
2019busiest year, 28 km²
2013quietest year, 11 km²
Septemberpeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 17 km2'122013: 11 km2'132014: 25 km2'142015: 11 km2'152016: 24 km2'162017: 17 km2'172018: 25 km2'182019: 28 km2'192020: 16 km2'202021: 19 km2'212022: 19 km2'222023: 13 km2'232024: 15 km2'242025: 21 km2'2528 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 28 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 11 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.5%JFebruary: 0.9%FMarch: 3.3%MApril: 7.1%AMay: 4.7%MJune: 8.9%JJuly: 19%JAugust: 19%ASeptember: 22%SOctober: 10%ONovember: 3.3%NDecember: 1.4%D22%

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 60% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 April 2021, with detections in 7 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 224 km² with at least one detection, 2.7% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year20592%
2 years135.8%
3 to 5 years5.22.3%
6 to 10 years0.00.0%
11 years or more0.90.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.25, -0.25 and holds 43% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121730
20131135
20142552
20151125
20162442
20171726
20182533
20192836
20201633
20211931
20221924
20231315
20241519
20252124

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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.

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