FeuxFrance
Data and licences
Where the figures come from, under which licence, and how old they are.
Freshness
| Source | Last update | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| FIRMS, archive | July 25, 2026, 22:44 | MODIS_NRT 2026 |
| FIRMS, daily feed | October 26, 2026, 15:17 | 24h |
| FIRMS, corrected version | October 1, 2026, 03:00 | 2026-04 a 2026-10 |
| BDIFF | July 26, 2026, 21:46 | bdiff_2006_2026.csv |
| Aggregate rebuild | October 26, 2026, 14:17 | 2026-10 |
| Municipality reference data | July 29, 2026, 01:46 | communes 2026 |
| Permanent source detection | October 2, 2026, 05:01 | cellules 5k |
| Alert dispatch | October 26, 2026, 15:17 | alertes |
| EFFIS, burned areas and emissions | October 26, 2026, 15:00 | 2006-2026 |
| Grouping hotspots into fires | October 26, 2026, 15:37 | 12 days |
| Météo des forêts, announced danger | October 25, 2026, 18:05 | 2026 |
Why the figure moves without its date changing
The burned area carries two dates, and they do not say the same thing.
The period covered stops at the record date. It only moves forward once a week, on Wednesdays: EFFIS publishes a single weekly value.
The value moves every day. EFFIS fills in its past weeks as the satellite imagery is processed. The week ending 22 July 2026 was worth 57,966 hectares on the 25th, then 86,514, then 85,772, then 86,210 on the 30th. Same period, four values.
The rest of the site follows each source's own pace: hotspots arrive every hour, the Météo des forêts every evening. The table above gives the detail, line by line.
Days with no detection at all in 2026
These dates have no detection anywhere in France. In winter that is normal: the country goes whole days without a single fire. A run of several empty days in the middle of the season, on the other hand, would signal an import problem, and the home page would say so.
- January 12, 2026
- January 27, 2026
- from February 10, 2026 to February 11, 2026 (2 days)
Licences and attribution
NASA FIRMS
Public domain. VIIRS 375 m detections, Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 sensors.
earthdata.nasa.gov/data/tools/firms
BDIFF
French Agriculture Ministry and IGN, Licence Ouverte 2.0. Declared fires. Last year loaded: 2025.
bdiff.agriculture.gouv.fr
Administrative reference data
Municipality boundaries and INSEE codes, geo.api.gouv.fr, Licence Ouverte 2.0. 34,746 municipalities and 96 departments loaded.
EFFIS et Copernicus
European Forest Fire Information System. Burned perimeters mapped since 2006 (fires above 30 hectares) and emissions modelled by the GFAS chain. Free reuse with attribution. 21 years loaded.
forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu
Base map
Open source vector tiles, OpenStreetMap data under the ODbL licence, rendered with MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3).
Latest imports
The last ten jobs, failures included.
| Date | Job | Result | Rows added |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/26/2026 15:37 | Grouping hotspots into fires (12 days) | succeeded | 137 |
| 10/26/2026 15:17 | Alert dispatch (alertes) | succeeded | 0 |
| 10/26/2026 15:17 | FIRMS, daily feed (24h) | succeeded | 0 |
| 10/26/2026 15:00 | EFFIS, burned areas and emissions (2006-2026) | succeeded | 333 |
| 10/26/2026 14:37 | Grouping hotspots into fires (12 days) | succeeded | 164 |
| 10/26/2026 14:17 | Alert dispatch (alertes) | succeeded | 0 |
| 10/26/2026 14:17 | Aggregate rebuild (2026-10) | succeeded | 22,768 |
| 10/26/2026 14:17 | FIRMS, daily feed (24h) | succeeded | 1 |
| 10/26/2026 13:37 | Grouping hotspots into fires (12 days) | succeeded | 180 |
| 10/26/2026 13:17 | Alert dispatch (alertes) | succeeded | 0 |
A failure does not make the data disappear: the site keeps serving the last known state, and shows it as such.
Cite this page
The figures on this page can be reused freely. This reference carries the date of the data, not the date of your visit: that is what lets you find the exact version of a figure later on.
FeuxFrance, independent observatory of vegetation fires in France. "Data and licences", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/data
Free to reuse, provided you also cite the original source (NASA FIRMS, EFFIS or BDIFF) and do not present satellite hotspots as declared fires.