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Saint-Georges fire, October 2026 Saint-Georges

Dying down · last detection 4 Nov 2026, 16:34 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 29 October 2026 in Saint-Georges, France. It has been active for 7 days, with 21 heat detections and an area with fire of about 182 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across a single municipality.

The power measured by the satellite is low (17.8 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Is it still active?

No detections since 4 Nov 2026, 16:34 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.

Wind, humidity and rain for the next 72 h

Area with fire
≈ 182ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
7days
29 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026
Municipalities hit
1
communes
Started on
29 Oct
2026
Heat detections
21
in a single hotspot: 18 MW
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index
Average daily power
30MW
detected power per day, on average

The next 72 hours

The wind is blowing from the east and pushing westwards; no sharp shifts are expected until Sun 8, 06:00.

ECMWF IFS 0.25° at the centre of the fire · computed 5 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC

Sun 8, 00:00, local time

First useful rain: 2.0 mm in 6 h

Chance of rain up to 20 % in those hours. It can slow the fire at the surface, but that does not mean it will go out.

Checked, no warning: no wind shifts of more than 60° nights recover humidity (peaks of 93 % or more)

Hour by hour, local time

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Mean wind Gusts where it blows to Relative humidity Night (8 pm to 8 am) Rain (mm) · chance in %

Where is it blowing? The next 48 h

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    This is not an official warning. It is a global model forecast with cells of about 25 km, at the centre of the fire: it cannot see valley winds or the winds the fire itself creates. The fan shows where the wind blows, not where the fire will spread. If in doubt, follow what the authorities say.

    Emergencies · France 112 · 18 Emergency number and official warnings

    Forecast: ECMWF IFS 0.25° (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), served by our own Open-Meteo instance; the chance of rain comes from the ECMWF ensemble. Variables: wind and gusts at 10 m, wind at 850 hPa, relative humidity and temperature at 2 m, rain. Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).

    Fire: VIIRS (NASA FIRMS); hotspots from the last 24 h: VIIRS from NASA FIRMS. Boundaries: geoBoundaries/Republic of France, Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Posts and Press Distribution (ARCEP) (Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0); geoBoundaries/Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)).

    How it is worked out: wind shift = a change of more than 60° in 6 h or less, with at least 15 km/h before and after; no overnight recovery = peak humidity between 8 pm and 8 am stays below 55 %; useful rain = 2 mm or more in 6 h. The fan opens 18° plus however much the wind varies within ±3 h and reaches 25 km beyond the edge of the fire: one model cell, not a rate of spread. Methodology

    Where it burned

    HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Oct4 Nov
    4 Nov 2026

    How it evolved, day by day

    29 Oct 2026 · 8 MW · 2 30 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 31 Oct 2026 · 121 MW · 9 1 Nov 2026 · 12 MW · 2 2 Nov 2026 · 11 MW · 2 3 Nov 2026 · 8 MW · 2 4 Nov 2026 · 21 MW · 2
    29 Oct 31 Oct 2 Nov 4 Nov

    Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

    The weather it burned in

    35°high
    40km/h · peak gust
    39%lowest humidity

    It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

    What happened to each town

    1. Saint-Georges 4,915 inhabitants · 22.9 km from the centre where it started
      182 ha reached on 29 Oct
      0.1 %

    Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

    The weather day by day

    ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

    Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives

    Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
    29 Oct 33.6 °C 48 % 40 km/h 1.8 mm High 22
    30 Oct 34.4 °C 42 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm High 24
    31 Oct 34.9 °C 44 % 32 km/h 0.4 mm High 26
    1 Nov 35.0 °C 42 % 31 km/h 0.2 mm High 24
    2 Nov 34.5 °C 39 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
    3 Nov 34.5 °C 40 % 36 km/h 0.2 mm High 33
    4 Nov 34.4 °C 43 % 33 km/h 0.2 mm High 30
    5 Nov after 34.5 °C 36 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

    Before and after, from space

    Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

    Before · 22 Oct 2026
    After · 4 Nov 2026

    If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

    Detections table · 21Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
    ⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
    Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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    Frequently asked questions

    How long did the Saint-Georges fire last?
    According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 29 October 2026 to 4 November 2026 (7 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
    How much area did it burn?
    There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 182 hectares with fire (1.8 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
    Which municipalities burned?
    The fire only entered Saint-Georges (182 ha, 0.1 %).
    Is the Saint-Georges fire still active?
    No fire detections since 4 Nov 2026, 16:34 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
    Did the fire reach a town?
    The fire started in Saint-Georges and came within 22.9 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
    What was the weather like?
    During the fire the temperature reached 35.0 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class High.
    What weather is expected at the fire over the next 72 hours?
    The wind is blowing from the east and pushing westwards; no sharp shifts are expected until Sun 8, 06:00. First useful rain: 2.0 mm in 6 h (Sun 8, 00:00). Times are local time at the fire. ECMWF IFS forecast (Open-Meteo) computed 5 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC; this is not an official warning.
    Where does this data come from?
    From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of France (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

    Where to verify it

    A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

    Emergency number: 112 · 18 · Emergency number and official warnings

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    How we know this
    • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 182 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
    • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 21 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
    • Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.

    How we build fire pages: methodology

    Where this data comes from

    The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM5 (Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.