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Villefranche-sur-Cher

Loir-et-Cher (41) · INSEE code 41280 · 2,722 ha · 2,678 inhabitants

Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 10 years out of 14, for 59 hotspots.

Fire keeps coming back: 8 consecutive years with at least one start. The worst is still 2019, with 11 hotspots.

The busiest month is August, which carries 37 % of the detections.

In its department, out of the 178 municipalities that saw at least one hotspot, this one ranks 3rd.

This year, 11 hotspots have already been detected here, the last one on September 25, 2026.

Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
59
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 October 26, so its bar is not comparable to the others.

0 10 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 11 ↗ 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
08/20/2025 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
07/12/2022 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
07/12/2022 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
09/30/2020 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
08/07/2020 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (works)
08/06/2020 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
08/03/2020 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
03/27/2019 0 ha 0 ha Accidental

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