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Maine-et-Loire

Pays de la Loire · code 49 · 176 municipalities

220
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 27 2026
515
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
153
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 27.

0 250 500 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 485 22 23 24 25 220 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Baugé-en-Anjou 404
6/14
Longué-Jumelles 40
3/14
Noyant-Villages 37
4/14
Chemillé-en-Anjou 34
7/14
La Breille-les-Pins 31
3/14
Ombrée d'Anjou 29
4/14
Beaupréau-en-Mauges 28
4/14
Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire 28
6/14
Lys-Haut-Layon 27
3/14
Gennes-Val-de-Loire 26
4/14

Why they start

Out of 84 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 14 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (works) 34 40 %
Accidental 25 30 %
Unintentional (private individual) 18 21 %
Arson 5 6 %
Natural 2 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 Maine-et-Loire", data of October 27, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/49-maine-et-loire

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