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Mayenne

Pays de la Loire · code 53 · 240 municipalities

106
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
241
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
160
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 25 106 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Saint-Pierre-la-Cour 33
0/14
Argentré 17
2/14
Changé 14
2/14
Saint-Pierre-des-Nids 11
0/14
La Gravelle 10
1/14
Bierné-les-Villages 10
2/14
Val-du-Maine 9
2/14
Pré-en-Pail-Saint-Samson 7
1/14
Bouère 6
4/14
Chemazé 6
3/14

Why they start

Out of 103 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 41 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (works) 63 61 %
Accidental 20 19 %
Unintentional (private individual) 9 9 %
Arson 7 7 %
Natural 4 4 %

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 Mayenne", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/53-mayenne

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