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Nouvelle-Aquitaine · code 40 · 327 municipalities

2,188
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 27 2026
247
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
157
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 27.

0 2,000 4,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2,188 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Biscarrosse 1,118
3/14
Luglon 424
2/14
Parentis-en-Born 178
4/14
Garein 173
4/14
Rion-des-Landes 159
8/14
Moustey 119
2/14
Callen 102
6/14
Lüe 75
6/14
Ychoux 73
6/14
Magescq 72
3/14

Why they start

Out of 1,083 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 53 % of those in the department.

Natural 549 51 %
Accidental 176 16 %
Unintentional (works) 141 13 %
Unintentional (private individual) 140 13 %
Arson 77 7 %

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 Landes", data of October 27, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/40-landes

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