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Wildfires in Pyrenees-Atlantics
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 2,070 km² of Pyrenees-Atlantics at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 399 km², ranking 2nd 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 939 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 109 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 88% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 February 2019, with detections in 159 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,070 km² with at least one detection, 44% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 715 | 35% |
| 2 years | 440 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 725 | 35% |
| 6 to 10 years | 185 | 9.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.9 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, -1.25 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 566 | 693 |
| 2013 | 116 | 140 |
| 2014 | 536 | 660 |
| 2015 | 289 | 345 |
| 2016 | 293 | 338 |
| 2017 | 648 | 856 |
| 2018 | 109 | 132 |
| 2019 | 939 | 1,282 |
| 2020 | 224 | 272 |
| 2021 | 388 | 454 |
| 2022 | 339 | 403 |
| 2023 | 495 | 605 |
| 2024 | 242 | 281 |
| 2025 | 400 | 476 |
Other regions of France
- French Guiana800 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
- Gironde70 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.
Nearby regions
- Navarre, Spain68 km
- Haute-Garonne161 km
- Biscay, Spain161 km
- Gironde171 km
- Cantabria, Spain202 km
- Huesca, Spain207 km