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Wildfires in Sarthe

Metropolitan department of France

Wildfires in Sarthe

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 162 km² of Sarthe at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 14 km², ranking 58th of 101 regions of France.

14 km²detected in an average year
2022busiest year, 26 km²
2023quietest year, 7.5 km²
Julypeak month, 21% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 14 km2'122013: 10 km2'132014: 17 km2'142015: 23 km2'152016: 8.3 km2'162017: 17 km2'172018: 12 km2'182019: 22 km2'192020: 17 km2'202021: 9.1 km2'212022: 26 km2'222023: 7.5 km2'232024: 7.5 km2'242025: 12 km2'2526 km2

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

The busiest year was 2022, with 26 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 7.5 km². The 2021–2025 average is 14% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.3%JFebruary: 2.8%FMarch: 4.1%MApril: 16%AMay: 9.1%MJune: 10%JJuly: 21%JAugust: 14%ASeptember: 14%SOctober: 6.0%ONovember: 1.6%NDecember: 0.6%D21%

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 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 July 2019, with detections in 10 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 162 km² with at least one detection, 3.6% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year14992%
2 years6.64.1%
3 to 5 years3.42.1%
6 to 10 years0.80.5%
11 years or more1.61.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.75, 0.25 and holds 61% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121424
20131015
20141724
20152329
20168.320
20171729
20181222
20192229
20201722
20219.112
20222644
20237.516
20247.515
20251217

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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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