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Ardèche

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · code 07 · 335 municipalities

262
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
144
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
171
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 21 320 22 23 24 25 262 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Saint-Joseph-des-Bancs 109
8/14
Saint-Julien-du-Gua 101
10/14
Genestelle 90
8/14
Cruas 77
13/14
Borne 63
9/14
Lavilledieu 60
8/14
Mayres 47
5/14
Saint-Étienne-de-Boulogne 42
8/14
Lagorce 40
2/14
Issamoulenc 40
6/14

Why they start

Out of 978 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 59 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (private individual) 387 40 %
Unintentional (works) 235 24 %
Arson 157 16 %
Accidental 111 11 %
Natural 88 9 %

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 Ardèche", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/07-ardeche

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