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Wildfires in Saône-et-Loire

Metropolitan department of France

Wildfires in Saône-et-Loire

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 177 km² of Saône-et-Loire at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 14 km², ranking 64th of 101 regions of France.

14 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 20 km²
2013quietest year, 5.9 km²
Augustpeak month, 21% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 17 km2'122013: 5.9 km2'132014: 15 km2'142015: 20 km2'152016: 7.6 km2'162017: 15 km2'172018: 14 km2'182019: 17 km2'192020: 20 km2'202021: 6.8 km2'212022: 13 km2'222023: 18 km2'232024: 6.0 km2'242025: 18 km2'2520 km2

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

The busiest year was 2015, with 20 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 5.9 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.6% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.4%JFebruary: 2.8%FMarch: 9.3%MApril: 13%AMay: 2.8%MJune: 11%JJuly: 20%JAugust: 21%ASeptember: 11%SOctober: 6.1%ONovember: 1.6%NDecember: 1.2%D21%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

June, July and August together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 August 2023, with detections in 5 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 177 km² with at least one detection, 1.5% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year16593%
2 years9.45.3%
3 to 5 years1.71.0%
6 to 10 years0.90.5%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 46.75, 4.75 and holds 27% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121722
20135.97
20141521
20152028
20167.610
20171518
20181417
20191722
20202024
20216.88
20221315
20231822
20246.09
20251823

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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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