Hourtin and 1 municipality

Where the fire was detected

Each point is a satellite detection, not a separate fire: one fire produces several per pass. The timeline shows the fire's chronological evolution from its first signal, each step showing what had burned up to that point.

The burned areas are the one-kilometre squares where a sensor saw fire at least once. This is a broad estimate: a single hotspot marks the whole square, so the area overflows what actually burned, and it can equally be full of holes where the satellite saw nothing at the time of its pass. On this fire it covers 3 km². The measured areas, in hectares, come from EFFIS and BDIFF, on the impacts page.

Wind and air right now

Reading from 09/17 13:00, Hourtin. AROME wind (Météo-France), CAMS Europe air (Copernicus).

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.

Municipalities affected

Municipalities where at least one hotspot was detected, from the worst affected to the least. A hotspot in a municipality says nothing about what exactly burned there, and the population shown is that of the whole municipality: over several thousand hectares, the fire may come near neither the village nor the houses.