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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · code 04 · 198 municipalities

110
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
196
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
130
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 200 400 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 239 22 23 24 25 110 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Les Mées 168
10/14
Gréoux-les-Bains 110
6/14
Valensole 89
7/14
Castellane 67
6/14
La Rochette 58
3/14
Prads-Haute-Bléone 50
2/14
Bayons 48
7/14
Rougon 45
2/14
Curbans 38
1/14
Manosque 38
7/14

Why they start

Out of 846 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 78 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (private individual) 316 37 %
Unintentional (works) 176 21 %
Natural 154 18 %
Accidental 105 12 %
Arson 95 11 %

BDIFF source. An investigation succeeds more often when a fire is large or suspicious: arson is probably over-represented here.

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FeuxFrance, independent observatory of vegetation fires in France. "Vegetation fires in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/04-alpes-de-haute-provence

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