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Meuse

Grand Est · code 55 · 499 municipalities

145
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
62
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
56
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 25 145 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Marville 111
5/14
Sorcy-Saint-Martin 34
1/14
Cousances-les-Forges 32
8/14
Noyers-Auzécourt 28
1/14
Iré-le-Sec 24
3/14
Montiers-sur-Saulx 18
2/14
Laneuville-sur-Meuse 15
2/14
Pillon 13
2/14
Geville 12
2/14
Han-sur-Meuse 12
1/14

Why they start

Out of 68 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 82 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (private individual) 21 31 %
Accidental 18 26 %
Unintentional (works) 15 22 %
Arson 14 21 %

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 Meuse", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/55-meuse

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