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Hérault

Occitanie · code 34 · 341 municipalities

516
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
1,473
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
1,111
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 500 1,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 516 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Aumelas 187
9/14
Béziers 151
13/14
Carlencas-et-Levas 95
1/14
Bessan 84
10/14
Saint-Pargoire 81
11/14
Capestang 71
12/14
Agde 67
12/14
Villeveyrac 65
10/14
Marsillargues 61
10/14
Fraisse-sur-Agout 58
11/14

Why they start

Out of 4,233 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 94 % of those in the department.

Arson 2,021 48 %
Unintentional (works) 938 22 %
Unintentional (private individual) 848 20 %
Accidental 355 8 %
Natural 71 2 %

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 Hérault", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/34-herault

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