Wildfires in Var

France · département

Fire-weather risk today

Extreme

tomorrow: Very high · steady

Fires in 2026

9 total since 2026

Area burned 2026

7059 ha

from satellite perimeters

Air quality now

Fair

EAQI 22· PM2.5 8.3 µg/m³ · includes wildfire smoke

How this page knows. France has no public real-time incident feed, so these fires are satellite detections (VIIRS, twice daily) clustered into incidents — not a fire service's log. A small fire between passes, or one under cloud, is not here. Each detection is filed under the nearest département centroid rather than a boundary test, so close to a border it can land on the neighbour's page. Fire-weather and air-quality figures are modelled at this same département (Var).

Fires by year

First season on record — year-over-year comparisons appear as we accumulate history.

Fire history

02/08/2026 · França 2032 ha ·35 h › 02/08/2026 · França 2281 ha ·24 h › 31/07/2026 · França 2032 ha ·72 h › 30/07/2026 · França 41.0 ha ·24 h › 27/07/2026 · França 59 h › 25/07/2026 · França 167 ha ·72 h › 24/07/2026 · França 24 h › 21/07/2026 · França 486 ha ·169 h › 19/07/2026 · França 20.0 ha ·46 h ›

Fire detections from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), clustered into incidents by us. Region centroids are area-weighted from public boundary datasets; a fire is attributed to the nearest one. Fire-weather risk is our own estimate (Canadian FWI on Open-Meteo forecasts), not an official warning — for those see your national meteorological service and fire authority. In an emergency call 112, the single European emergency number.