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Haute-Corse

Corse · code 2B · 236 municipalities

1 fire detected in the past few days

Meria last signal 1 day ago

6 hotspots · 1 municipality

A cluster of hotspots is not a declared fire. For instructions, the reference is the prefecture, the fire service and FR-Alert. All active fires

Last satellite pass processed: 10/26 12:55, about 4 hours ago. Anything that has burned since is not on this page.

Wind and air right now

Reading from 10/26 16:00, Meria. AROME wind (Météo-France), CAMS Europe air (Copernicus).

17 km/h
wind from the south
pushing towards the north
26 km/h
gusts
this is what jumps firebreaks
21 °C
70 % humidity
7
PM10 in µg/m³
PM2.5: 3

These values come from the models at this location, not from a smoke forecast. Where the plume settles also depends on the terrain, the height of the column and the stability of the air, which we do not compute. A shift in the wind changes everything.

1,045
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
229
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
993
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 1,045 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Corte 742
11/14
Solaro 317
6/14
Albertacce 248
8/14
Calenzana 204
10/14
Oletta 192
11/14
Casamaccioli 186
10/14
Olmeta-di-Tuda 150
5/14
Ghisoni 145
8/14
Olcani 141
10/14
Rutali 125
2/14

Why they start

Out of 2,742 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 53 % of those in the department.

Arson 1,731 63 %
Unintentional (private individual) 355 13 %
Natural 258 9 %
Unintentional (works) 257 9 %
Accidental 141 5 %

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

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The figures on this page can be reused freely. This reference carries the date of the data, not the date of your visit: that is what lets you find the exact version of a figure later on.

FeuxFrance, independent observatory of vegetation fires in France. "Vegetation fires in Haute-Corse", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/2B-haute-corse

Free to reuse, provided you also cite the original source (NASA FIRMS, EFFIS or BDIFF) and do not present satellite hotspots as declared fires.