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Gironde

Nouvelle-Aquitaine · code 33 · 534 municipalities

8,682
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
525
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
231
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 5,000 10,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 8,682 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Le Porge 2,807
1/14
La Teste-de-Buch 1,413
8/14
Lège-Cap-Ferret 1,221
0/14
Belin-Béliet 954
2/14
Landiras 945
1/14
Saumos 885
1/14
Guillos 788
1/14
Louchats 768
2/14
Lanton 736
1/14
Lacanau 726
3/14

Why they start

Out of 1,540 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 39 % of those in the department.

Natural 506 33 %
Accidental 421 27 %
Unintentional (private individual) 234 15 %
Arson 212 14 %
Unintentional (works) 167 11 %

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 Gironde", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/33-gironde

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