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Wildfires in Orne

Metropolitan department of France

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 80 km² of Orne at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 6.2 km², ranking 93rd of 101 regions of France.

6.2 km²detected in an average year
2023busiest year, 12 km²
2017quietest year, 1.6 km²
Julypeak month, 20% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 4.1 km2'122013: 4.1 km2'132014: 6.6 km2'142015: 11 km2'152016: 4.9 km2'162017: 1.6 km2'172018: 7.4 km2'182019: 8.2 km2'192020: 11 km2'202021: 2.5 km2'212022: 6.6 km2'222023: 12 km2'232024: 2.5 km2'242025: 5.7 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 2023, with 12 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 1.6 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.3% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.0%JFebruary: 1.9%FMarch: 5.6%MApril: 12%AMay: 5.6%MJune: 13%JJuly: 20%JAugust: 16%ASeptember: 15%SOctober: 5.6%ONovember: 1.9%NDecember: 3.7%D20%

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 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 June 2015, with detections in 3 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 80 km² with at least one detection, 1.0% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year7593%
2 years4.96.1%
3 to 5 years0.81.0%
6 to 10 years0.00.0%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 48.75, 0.25 and holds 30% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20124.15
20134.16
20146.68
20151114
20164.96
20171.62
20187.49
20198.210
20201113
20212.53
20226.68
20231214
20242.53
20255.77

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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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