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Var

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · code 83 · 153 municipalities

1,202
hotspots in 2026
VIIRS · 1 Jan to October 26 2026
459
declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest published
174
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 1,289 21 22 23 24 25 1,202 ↗ 26

Worst affected municipalities

Cumulative hotspots since 2012.

Municipality Hotspots Recurrence
Correns 393
1/14
La Garde-Freinet 388
1/14
Le Cannet-des-Maures 303
2/14
Aiguines 288
3/14
Pontevès 276
2/14
Cotignac 220
0/14
Cogolin 189
4/14
Bormes-les-Mimosas 186
2/14
La Môle 127
1/14
Vidauban 112
6/14

Why they start

Out of 2,578 declared fires whose cause is recorded, that is 87 % of those in the department.

Unintentional (private individual) 942 37 %
Arson 690 27 %
Unintentional (works) 430 17 %
Accidental 291 11 %
Natural 225 9 %

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 Var", data of October 26, 2026. https://feuxfrance.com/en/departments/83-var

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