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Ustou

Ariège (09) · INSEE code 09322 · 9,872 ha · 281 inhabitants

Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 12 years out of 14, for 248 hotspots.

Fire keeps coming back: 6 consecutive years with at least one start. The worst is still 2019, with 48 hotspots.

The busiest month is February, which carries 28 % of the detections.

This is the worst affected municipality in its department, ahead of 182 others that saw at least one hotspot.

This year, 16 hotspots have already been detected here, the last one on April 10, 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 Ariège department, not for this municipality in particular.

Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
248
hotspots since 2012
VIIRS · 2012 to today

Local recurrence

20122025

This area burned in 12 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 25 50 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 48 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 ↗ 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
04/09/2025 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
01/17/2025 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
03/26/2021 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
02/19/2006 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded

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