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Saône-et-Loire

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté · code 71 · 563 municipalities

118
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
344
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
132
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 25 118 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Gueugnon 22
6/14
Sanvignes-les-Mines 19
3/14
Chagny 18
3/14
Saint-Eusèbe 15
1/14
Saint-Yan 15
1/14
Romenay 14
4/14
Pontoux 14
5/14
Sennecey-le-Grand 14
2/14
Palleau 13
1/14
Digoin 12
3/14

Why they start

Out of 225 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 40 % of those in the department.

Accidental 98 44 %
Unintentional (works) 54 24 %
Unintentional (private individual) 37 16 %
Natural 21 9 %
Arson 15 7 %

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 Saône-et-Loire", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/71-saone-et-loire

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