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Haute-Loire

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · code 43 · 257 municipalities

84
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
205
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
115
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 50 100 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 84 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Mazeyrat-d'Allier 23
2/14
Loudes 18
4/14
Rauret 14
0/14
Villeneuve-d'Allier 13
0/14
Saint-Julien-des-Chazes 12
0/14
Saint-Georges-Lagricol 11
2/14
Saint-Just-près-Brioude 10
2/14
Esplantas-Vazeilles 9
3/14
Les Vastres 9
0/14
Cronce 8
1/14

Why they start

Out of 121 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 32 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (works) 41 34 %
Unintentional (private individual) 39 32 %
Accidental 26 21 %
Arson 9 7 %
Natural 6 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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FeuxFrance, independent observatory of vegetation fires in France. "Vegetation fires in Haute-Loire", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/43-haute-loire

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