FeuxFrance
Saint-Joseph-des-Bancs
Ardèche (07) · INSEE code 07251 · 1,292 ha · 200 inhabitants
Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 8 years out of 14, for 109 hotspots.
Fire keeps coming back: 6 consecutive years with at least one start. The worst is still 2017, with 20 hotspots.
The busiest month is March, which carries 45 % of the detections.
This is the worst affected municipality in its department, ahead of 225 others that saw at least one hotspot.
This year, 14 hotspots have already been detected here, the last one on April 25, 2026.
Moderate danger for tomorrow
Météo des forêts · September 10, 2026The weather conditions do not significantly worsen the risk of fires starting and spreading.
Bulletin published for the whole of the Ardèche department, not for this municipality in particular.
Local recurrence
This area burned in 8 of the 14 complete years from 2012 to 2025.
2026 is not counted: the year is not over.
Full constellation. 2026 stops on September 10, so its bar is not comparable to the others.
| Year | Points chauds |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 13 |
| 2026 (en cours) | 14 |
Declared fires
BDIFF · year 2025, latest publishedThis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/01/2021 | 5 ha | 2 ha | Unintentional (works) |
| 09/15/2020 | 0 ha | 0 ha | Unintentional (works) |
| 03/22/2019 | 4 ha | — | Unintentional (works) |
| 04/18/2018 | 3 ha | — | Unintentional (private individual) |
| 01/07/2017 | 9 ha | — | Arson |
| 03/04/2012 | 1 ha | 1 ha | Arson |
| 09/15/2007 | 0 ha | 0 ha | Arson |