2025 against 2026
Metropolitan France, 25 km cells, VIIRS Suomi-NPP only.
2,859
hotspots in 2025
9,686
hotspots in 2026
+6,827
difference, that is
+239 %
258
areas newly affected
126 stopped burning
126 stopped burning
The difference
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2025
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2026
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−50−20−50+5+20+50
hotspot difference per cell · the largest reaches
1,945
The three maps move together: zooming one zooms all three.
Both periods are read from a single satellite, VIIRS Suomi-NPP. Comparing two years across the full constellation would show a rise caused by NOAA-20 arriving in 2018 and NOAA-21 in 2024: three satellites detect more than one, for the same amount of fire. The full method