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Moselle

Grand Est · code 57 · 725 municipalities

1 fire detected in the past few days

Morville-lès-Vic last signal about 12 hours ago

8 hotspots · 1 municipality

A cluster of hotspots is not a declared fire. For instructions, the reference is the prefecture, the fire service and FR-Alert. All active fires

Last satellite pass processed: 10/26 12:55, about 3 hours ago. Anything that has burned since is not on this page.

Wind and air right now

Reading from 10/26 16:00, Morville-lès-Vic. AROME wind (Météo-France), CAMS Europe air (Copernicus).

12 km/h
wind from the south
pushing towards the north
26 km/h
gusts
this is what jumps firebreaks
11 °C
74 % humidity
10
PM10 in µg/m³
PM2.5: 5

These values come from the models at this location, not from a smoke forecast. Where the plume settles also depends on the terrain, the height of the column and the stability of the air, which we do not compute. A shift in the wind changes everything.

254
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
647
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
36
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 200 400 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 254 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Metz 71
12/14
Florange 68
10/14
Ennery 68
2/14
Héming 66
0/14
Haspelschiedt 40
7/14
Hagondange 37
9/14
Serémange-Erzange 32
0/14
Nilvange 28
9/14
Trémery 24
0/14
Morhange 21
4/14

Why they start

Out of 538 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 79 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (works) 469 87 %
Accidental 57 11 %
Unintentional (private individual) 12 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 Moselle", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/57-moselle

Free to reuse, provided you also cite the original source (NASA FIRMS, EFFIS or BDIFF) and do not present satellite hotspots as declared fires.