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Wildfires in Var
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 478 km² of Var at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 41 km², ranking 15th 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 2021, with 144 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 11 km². The 2021–2025 average is 154% higher 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.
June, July and August together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 August 2021, with detections in 92 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 478 km² with at least one detection, 3.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 422 | 88% |
| 2 years | 39 | 8.1% |
| 3 to 5 years | 15 | 3.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.8 | 0.4% |
| 11 years or more | 0.9 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, 6.25 and holds 46% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 22 | 27 |
| 2013 | 20 | 28 |
| 2014 | 17 | 19 |
| 2015 | 25 | 32 |
| 2016 | 26 | 30 |
| 2017 | 120 | 151 |
| 2018 | 17 | 21 |
| 2019 | 30 | 35 |
| 2020 | 11 | 15 |
| 2021 | 144 | 181 |
| 2022 | 74 | 94 |
| 2023 | 25 | 29 |
| 2024 | 11 | 12 |
| 2025 | 28 | 32 |
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.