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Castelnou

Pyrénées-Orientales (66) · INSEE code 66044 · 1,926 ha · 280 inhabitants

Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 5 years out of 14, for 18 hotspots.

The worst season is 2016, with 3 hotspots.

The busiest month is September, which carries 67 % of the detections.

The last detection goes back to September 10, 2025.

High danger for tomorrow

Météo des forêts · September 10, 2026

The weather conditions significantly worsen the risk of fires starting and spreading.

Bulletin published for the whole of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, not for this municipality in particular.

Hotspots
VIIRS detection
industrial source
18
hotspots since 2012
VIIRS · 2012 to today

Local recurrence

20122025

This area burned in 5 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 10, so its bar is not comparable to the others.

0 2 4 12 13 14 15 3 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 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
04/14/2023 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (private individual)
04/04/2022 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (private individual)
07/13/2021 0 ha Accidental
04/05/2021 0 ha Accidental
05/29/2019 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (works)
08/03/2015 0 ha 0 ha Arson
08/03/2015 0 ha 0 ha Arson
06/08/2015 0 ha Natural
09/05/2011 1 ha 0 ha Arson
07/28/2006 1 ha 0 ha Not recorded
06/26/2006 2 ha 0 ha Unintentional (works)

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