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Grande-Synthe

Nord (59) · INSEE code 59271 · 2,099 ha · 20,239 inhabitants

Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 4 years out of 14, for 1,546 hotspots.

The worst season is 2020, with 141 hotspots.

This is the worst affected municipality in its department, ahead of 210 others that saw at least one hotspot.

This year, 1,368 hotspots have already been detected here, the last one on July 25, 2026.

Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
1,546
hotspots since 2012
VIIRS · 2012 to today

Local recurrence

20122025

This area burned in 4 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 27, so its bar is not comparable to the others.

0 1,000 2,000 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1,368 ↗ 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
05/11/2025 0 ha 0 ha Arson

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