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Drôme

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · code 26 · 362 municipalities

1,412
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
310
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
79
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 1,412 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Die 527
0/14
Barsac 226
0/14
Solaure en Diois 221
0/14
Pierrelatte 107
12/14
Montmaur-en-Diois 91
0/14
Ponet-et-Saint-Auban 66
0/14
Aurel 58
0/14
Bellegarde-en-Diois 53
0/14
Châteauneuf-sur-Isère 48
8/14
Romeyer 48
1/14

Why they start

Out of 389 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 51 % of those in the department.

Arson 108 28 %
Unintentional (works) 87 22 %
Accidental 83 21 %
Unintentional (private individual) 81 21 %
Natural 30 8 %

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 Drôme", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/26-drome

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