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Wildfires in Pyrénées-Orientales
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 556 km² of Pyrénées-Orientales at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 60 km², ranking 9th 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 2016, with 86 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 38 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% lower than 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.
January, February and March together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 August 2016, with detections in 17 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 556 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 407 | 73% |
| 2 years | 88 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 53 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7.2 | 1.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.9 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.75, 2.75 and holds 68% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 85 | 110 |
| 2013 | 38 | 45 |
| 2014 | 59 | 69 |
| 2015 | 55 | 71 |
| 2016 | 86 | 99 |
| 2017 | 68 | 86 |
| 2018 | 46 | 53 |
| 2019 | 78 | 97 |
| 2020 | 48 | 65 |
| 2021 | 47 | 56 |
| 2022 | 60 | 71 |
| 2023 | 61 | 70 |
| 2024 | 47 | 56 |
| 2025 | 56 | 72 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Aude55 km
- Hérault68 km
- Ariège81 km
- Gard164 km
- Bouches-du-Rhône171 km
- Haute-Garonne171 km