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Wildfires in Banca

Banca, France, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 254 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 11 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 73 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 74 % · 43 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 9° · 74 % · 39 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 5° · 67 % · 50 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 61 % · 39 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

254
hectares burned
5.1 %
of its area
2
fires
50
km²

How many times has Banca burned?

Banca has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Banca fire, March 2026, with 253 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
254
cumulative ha
13 Mar 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in France →

Fires that entered Banca

  1. 253 ha Banca fire, March 2026 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 253 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 0 ha Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry fire, 27 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 130 ha Banca fire, 20 February 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 130 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 230 ha Banca fire, 19 February 2025 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 230 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 159 ha Banca fire, March 2023 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 141 ha Banca fire, February 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 141 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 107 ha Banca fire, March 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 17 ha Anhaux fire, February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 442 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 109 ha Banca fire, 21 February 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 133 ha Banca fire, 20 February 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 133 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 121 ha Banca fire, 17 February 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 121 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 150 ha Banca fire, 16 February 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 27 ha Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry fire, 15 February 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Republic of France, Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Posts and Press Distribution (ARCEP) (Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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