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Wildfires in Lot

Metropolitan department of France

Wildfires in Lot

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 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 88 km² of Lot at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 7.8 km², ranking 87th of 101 regions of France.

7.8 km²detected in an average year
2018busiest year, 12 km²
2016quietest year, 2.6 km²
Aprilpeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 5.3 km2'122013: 4.4 km2'132014: 8.8 km2'142015: 9.7 km2'152016: 2.6 km2'162017: 7.9 km2'172018: 12 km2'182019: 9.7 km2'192020: 5.3 km2'202021: 7.9 km2'212022: 11 km2'222023: 7.9 km2'232024: 6.2 km2'242025: 11 km2'2512 km2

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

The busiest year was 2018, with 12 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 2.6 km². The 2021–2025 average is 40% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.8%JFebruary: 4.5%FMarch: 8.3%MApril: 22%AMay: 3.0%MJune: 3.0%JJuly: 9.1%JAugust: 11%ASeptember: 17%SOctober: 16%ONovember: 3.0%NDecember: 1.5%D22%

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 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 July 2013, with detections in 3 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 88 km² with at least one detection, 6.0% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year7889%
2 years4.45.0%
3 to 5 years3.54.0%
6 to 10 years1.82.0%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 44.75, 1.75 and holds 39% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20125.36
20134.45
20148.813
20159.711
20162.64
20177.99
20181214
20199.713
20205.38
20217.99
20221112
20237.99
20246.27
20251112

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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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