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Loir-et-Cher

Centre-Val de Loire · code 41 · 267 municipalities

200
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
258
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
245
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 100 200 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 200 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Beauce la Romaine 158
7/14
Mer 59
6/14
Villefranche-sur-Cher 59
10/14
Châtillon-sur-Cher 48
4/14
Gièvres 46
4/14
Mesland 28
3/14
Danzé 28
3/14
La Madeleine-Villefrouin 28
4/14
Binas 24
4/14
Ouzouer-le-Doyen 24
2/14

Why they start

Out of 80 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 13 % of those in the department.

Accidental 29 36 %
Unintentional (works) 25 31 %
Unintentional (private individual) 11 14 %
Arson 8 10 %
Natural 7 9 %

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 Loir-et-Cher", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/41-loir-et-cher

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