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Ortaffa

Pyrénées-Orientales (66) · INSEE code 66129 · 853 ha · 1,980 inhabitants

Between 2012 and 2025, satellites saw fire in 5 years out of 14, for 47 hotspots.

The worst season is 2023, with 13 hotspots.

The busiest month is October, which carries 55 % of the detections.

In its department, out of the 169 municipalities that saw at least one hotspot, this one ranks 20th.

This year, 2 hotspots have already been detected here, the last one on February 22, 2026.

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
47
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 10 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 13 23 24 25 2 ↗ 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
12/02/2025 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
11/25/2025 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (works)
11/06/2025 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (private individual)
07/09/2025 0 ha 0 ha Not recorded
01/31/2025 0 ha 0 ha Unintentional (private individual)
06/27/2023 1 ha 1 ha Arson
06/09/2021 1 ha Not recorded
07/16/2019 2 ha 2 ha Arson
07/29/2016 3 ha 2 ha Not recorded
07/22/2015 0 ha 0 ha Arson
06/01/2009 1 ha 0 ha Not recorded
08/05/2006 1 ha 0 ha Not recorded

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