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Les Mées

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04) · INSEE code 04116 · 6,470 ha · 4,099 inhabitants

Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 10 years out of 14, for 161 hotspots.

The worst season is 2023, with 20 hotspots.

The busiest month is October, which carries 25 % of the detections.

This is the worst affected municipality in its department, ahead of 132 others that saw at least one hotspot.

This year, 4 hotspots have already been detected here, the last one on September 4, 2026.

Low danger for tomorrow

Météo des forêts · September 10, 2026

The expected weather conditions and recent rainfall reduce the risk of fires starting and spreading.

Bulletin published for the whole of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, not for this municipality in particular.

Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
161
hotspots since 2012
VIIRS · 2012 to today

Local recurrence

20122025

This area burned in 10 of the 14 complete years from 2012 to 2025.

2026 is not counted: the year is not over.

Hotspots by year

Full constellation. 2026 stops on September 9, so its bar is not comparable to the others.

0 10 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 23 24 25 4 ↗ 26

Declared fires

BDIFF · year 2025, latest published

This table cannot be compared with the hotspots above. BDIFF records fires confirmed on the ground, including very small ones, but it is located to the municipality and published a year behind. Both sources in detail

Alert date Area burned of which forest Suspected cause
10/20/2025 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (private individual)
07/18/2025 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (works)
04/11/2025 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (works)
03/21/2024 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
08/19/2020 2 ha 1 ha Not recorded
06/26/2010 0 ha 0 ha Natural
08/25/2009 7 ha 0 ha Unintentional (private individual)

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