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Ardennes

Grand Est · code 08 · 447 municipalities

115
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
176
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
68
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 100 200 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 115 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Grandpré 29
3/14
Monthermé 24
0/14
Coulommes-et-Marqueny 15
2/14
Vrigne aux Bois 15
2/14
Ménil-Annelles 15
1/14
Grivy-Loisy 14
3/14
Château-Porcien 14
5/14
Juniville 13
3/14
Marcq 13
0/14
Grandham 10
2/14

Why they start

Out of 191 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 85 % of those in the department.

Arson 83 43 %
Unintentional (private individual) 59 31 %
Unintentional (works) 42 22 %
Accidental 6 3 %
Natural 1 1 %

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 Ardennes", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/08-ardennes

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