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Bouches-du-Rhône

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · code 13 · 119 municipalities

1,693
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
645
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
1,107
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 1,000 2,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1,693 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Arles 1,784
14/14
Fos-sur-Mer 1,449
2/14
Saint-Martin-de-Crau 619
14/14
Martigues 279
9/14
Istres 240
13/14
Marseille 234
14/14
Les Pennes-Mirabeau 184
7/14
Tarascon 144
11/14
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer 138
12/14
Eyragues 101
13/14

Why they start

Out of 2,893 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 62 % of those in the department.

Arson 1,118 39 %
Unintentional (private individual) 968 33 %
Accidental 443 15 %
Unintentional (works) 239 8 %
Natural 125 4 %

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 Bouches-du-Rhône", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/13-bouches-du-rhone

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