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Haute-Savoie

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · code 74 · 279 municipalities

6
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 27 2026
201
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
13
hectares burned
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
Hotspots by year

2026 stops on October 27.

0 10 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Annecy 9
2/14
Samoëns 9
2/14
Publier 6
2/14
Passy 5
2/14
Fillière 5
2/14
Faverges-Seythenex 4
0/14
Bossey 4
0/14
Vulbens 4
2/14
Viry 4
3/14
Manigod 3
0/14

Why they start

Out of 254 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 71 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (private individual) 98 39 %
Unintentional (works) 75 30 %
Accidental 51 20 %
Arson 20 8 %
Natural 10 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 Haute-Savoie", data of October 27, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/74-haute-savoie

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