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Pyrénées-Orientales

Occitanie · code 66 · 226 municipalities

1,143
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
608
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
72
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 26.

0 1,000 2,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1,143 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Ille-sur-Têt 390
10/14
Rodès 225
3/14
Mosset 145
9/14
Perpignan 141
13/14
Montalba-le-Château 129
1/14
Elne 128
13/14
Glorianes 114
10/14
Sournia 107
11/14
Pézilla-la-Rivière 102
13/14
Bouleternère 94
1/14

Why they start

Out of 1,740 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 69 % of those in the department.

Arson 710 41 %
Unintentional (private individual) 419 24 %
Accidental 289 17 %
Unintentional (works) 252 14 %
Natural 70 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 Pyrénées-Orientales", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/66-pyrenees-orientales

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